Time-reversible Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics |
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Authors: | Niklasson Anders M N Tymczak C J Challacombe Matt |
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Institution: | Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. |
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Abstract: | We present a time-reversible Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics scheme, based on self-consistent Hartree-Fock or density functional theory, where both the nuclear and the electronic degrees of freedom are propagated in time. We show how a time-reversible adiabatic propagation of the electronic degrees of freedom is possible despite the nonlinearity and incompleteness of the self-consistent field procedure. With a time-reversible lossless propagation the simulated dynamics is stabilized with respect to a systematic long-term energy drift and the number of self-consistency cycles can be kept low thanks to a good initial guess given from the electronic propagation. The proposed molecular dynamics scheme therefore combines a low computational cost with a physically correct time-reversible representation, which preserves a detailed balance between propagation forwards and backwards in time. |
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