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#1 2023-05-10 23:13:53

rdjiij
Member
Registered: 2023-03-15
Posts: 13

HOP along trajectory for large dE values

Dear Molcas Users,

I am having an hard time understanding why a QM/MM trajectory that I am running is HOPPING from S1 to S0 for a large energy gap (ca. 0.15 a.u.).
The trajectory is propagated at the SA3-CASSCF(10,10)//6-31G* level, from S2.
It is somewhat well-behaved for ~90 fs, when I then get this jump and start to observe an unphysical behavior.
I get this verbose printout which I cannot fully understand:

()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()

                                            &SURFACEHOP

             launched 8 MPI processes, running in PARALLEL mode (work-sharing enabled)
                       available to each process: 12 GB of memory, 1 thread?
                                         master pid: 110906
()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()


 ------------------------------------------
             TULLY ALGORITHM
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 Using CI vector product for WF overlap

 Did the density matrix exists?  T
 Did the Pre-coefficients array exists?  T
 Did the Pre-Pre-coefficients array exists?  T
 Density Matrix elements (i=1..#states):
 (-4.404987183771590E-002,7.417476883166522E-004)
 (1.21535067373835,0.686899466180354) (-25.4300581403399,25.4563425055070)
 (1.21636489282894,-0.724701629977835)
 (0.375683889552587,-2.691481012497208E-005)
 (-0.680507343805885,-0.204158195646083)
 (-26.3806754620796,-25.1597184795051) (-0.681771259631409,0.201821529128818)
 (0.668365982285127,-7.148328792525604E-004)
 Using CI vector products for sign correction/root ordering
 Using CI vector product to calculate D Matrix
 From input Random is Fixed at:  0.250000000000000
 Normalized by Substep number:  1.256281407035176E-003
 executing the integration:
 Time Step is:       41.3223140000000
 Substeps are:                    199
 Following Tully, should hop from                     2 to                     3
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 Following Tully, should hop from                     2 to                     3
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 Following Tully, should hop from                     2 to                     3
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 Following Tully, should hop from                     2 to                     3
 Following Tully, should hop from                     2 to                     1
 this root has an energy lower than the total  -742.120777886046
  (thus, permitted)
 Ediffcheck is: -0.161708711590791
 lower than the threshold:  1.797693134862316E+308
 temproot set to:                     1
 Gnuplot:  5.892533827017844E-002  0.334403724788879
  0.606670936940940       -742.319445766803       -742.157955839222
  -742.117980466388       -742.319445766803
 HOP ALLOWED
      +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
      |                                                                                                                      |
      |                                               A HOP event is detected!|
      |                                                                                                                      |
      |                                            From state:  2    To state:  1                                            |
      |                                                                                                                      |
      +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


--- Stop Module: surfacehop at Wed May 10 21:03:35 2023 /rc=_RC_ALL_IS_WELL_ ---
*** files: xmldump
    saved to directory /home/barneschil/BENCHMARK-ASEC-BOX/cinnamic_acid/ASEC_GAFF/Step_0/calculations/optscf/QMMM/SA2/cas_10_10/sa5_correction/fc_trj/from_s2_sa3
--- Module surfacehop spent 6 seconds ---

*** symbolic link created: INPORB -> M2_10_10_neu.RasOrb
--- Start Module: mclr at Wed May 10 21:03:42 2023 ---

I checked the active space and it looks fine before and after this HOP. Might this have to do with the NAC?
Any suggestion is highly appreciated.

Kindest regards

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#2 2023-05-11 08:24:14

Ignacio
Administrator
From: Uppsala
Registered: 2015-11-03
Posts: 1,012

Re: HOP along trajectory for large dE values

It might be a limitation/flaw of "using CI vector product for WF overlap". Try with a recent OpenMolcas version (23.02 or later), it should compute more accurate overlaps with RASSI. As far as I remember, SURFACEHOP does not use NACs.

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#3 2023-05-11 08:56:26

rdjiij
Member
Registered: 2023-03-15
Posts: 13

Re: HOP along trajectory for large dE values

Dear Ignacio,
thank you very much for replying. I have the exact same problem if I use RASSI for wavefunction overlaps (however I am using version 22.10).
Do you think it could be beneficial to install 23.02 or later?

Thanks again!

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#4 2023-05-11 10:00:16

Ignacio
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From: Uppsala
Registered: 2015-11-03
Posts: 1,012

Re: HOP along trajectory for large dE values

I forgot the RASSI overlaps were available earlier... Maybe this has an effect: https://gitlab.com/Molcas/OpenMolcas/-/ … quests/579

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#5 2023-05-11 12:05:09

rdjiij
Member
Registered: 2023-03-15
Posts: 13

Re: HOP along trajectory for large dE values

Dear Ignacio,
Thank you very much, I will give it a try smile

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