Scalable Ehrenfest Molecular Dynamics Exploiting the Locality of Density-Functional Tight-Binding HamiltonianClick to copy article linkArticle link copied!
- Hiroki UrataniHiroki UrataniDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, JapanMore by Hiroki Uratani
- Hiromi Nakai*Hiromi Nakai*Email: [email protected]Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, JapanWaseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering (WISE), 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, JapanElements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries (ESICB), Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8245, JapanMore by Hiromi Nakai
Abstract
To explore the science behind excited-state dynamics in high-complexity chemical systems, a scalable nonadiabatic molecular dynamics (MD) technique is indispensable. In this study, by treating the electronic degrees of freedom at the density-functional tight-binding level, we developed and implemented a reduced scaling and multinode-parallelizable Ehrenfest MD method. To achieve this goal, we introduced a concept called patchwork approximation (PA), where the effective Hamiltonian for real-time propagation of the electronic density matrix is partitioned into a set of local parts. Numerical results for giant icosahedral fullerenes, which comprise up to 6000 atoms, suggest that the scaling of the present PA-based method is less than quadratic, which yields a significant advantage over the conventional cubic scaling method in terms of computational time. The acceleration by the parallelization on multiple nodes was also assessed. Furthermore, the electronic and structural dynamics resulting from the perturbation by the external electric field were accurately reproduced with the PA, even when the electronic excitation was spatially delocalized.
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