FSSH-2: Fewest Switches Surface Hopping with Robust Switching Probability.
Leonardo AraujoCaroline LasserBurkhard SchmidtPublished in: Journal of chemical theory and computation (2024)
This study introduces the FSSH-2 scheme, a redefined and numerically stable adiabatic Fewest Switches Surface Hopping (FSSH) method for mixed quantum-classical dynamics. It reformulates the standard FSSH hopping probability without using nonadiabatic coupling vectors and allows for numerical time integration with larger step sizes. The advantages of FSSH-2 are demonstrated by numerical experiments for five different model systems in one and two spatial dimensions with up to three electronic states.