Nonadiabatic nuclear dynamics of the ammonia cation studied by surface hopping classical trajectory calculations.

@article{Belyaev2014NonadiabaticND,
  title={Nonadiabatic nuclear dynamics of the ammonia cation studied by surface hopping classical trajectory calculations.},
  author={Andrey K. Belyaev and Wolfgang Domcke and Caroline Lasser and Giulio Trigila},
  journal={The Journal of chemical physics},
  year={2014},
  volume={142 10},
  pages={
          104307
        }
}
The Landau-Zener (LZ) type classical-trajectory surface-hopping algorithm is applied to the nonadiabatic nuclear dynamics of the ammonia cation after photoionization of the ground-state neutral molecule to the excited states of the cation. The algorithm employs a recently proposed formula for nonadiabatic LZ transition probabilities derived from the adiabatic potential energy surfaces. The evolution of the populations of the ground state and the two lowest excited adiabatic states is calculated… 
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