Taylor-mode automatic differentiation for constructing molecular rovibrational Hamiltonian operators

We present an automated framework for constructing Taylor series expansions of rovibrational kinetic and potential energy operators for arbitrary molecules, internal coordinate systems, and molecular frame embedding conditions. Expressing operators in a sum-of-products form allows for computationally efficient evaluations of matrix elements in product basis sets. Our approach uses automatic differentiation tools from the Python machine learning ecosystem, particularly the JAX library, to efficiently and accurately generate high-order Taylor expansions of rovibrational operators. The implementation is available at https://github.com/robochimps/vibrojet.

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The Journal of Chemical Physics
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2025-08-19
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https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0287347
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Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
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Taylor-mode automatic differentiation for constructing molecular rovibrational Hamiltonian operators

Andrey Yachmenev, Emil Vogt, Yahya Saleh, Álvaro Fernández Corral
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
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Taylor-mode automatic differentiation for constructing molecular rovibrational Hamiltonian operators

Andrey Yachmenev, Emil Vogt, Yahya Saleh, Álvaro Fernández Corral
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Abstract

We present an automated framework for constructing Taylor series expansions of rovibrational kinetic and potential energy operators for arbitrary molecules, internal coordinate systems, and molecular frame embedding conditions. Expressing operators in a sum-of-products form allows for computationally efficient evaluations of matrix elements in product basis sets. Our approach uses automatic differentiation tools from the Python machine learning ecosystem, particularly the JAX library, to efficiently and accurately generate high-order Taylor expansions of rovibrational operators. The implementation is available at https://github.com/robochimps/vibrojet.

The Journal of Chemical PhysicsVol. 163(7)
Universität Hamburg (DE), Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (DE), Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (DE)
European Commission, HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme, HORIZON EUROPE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Openalex Percentile: Top 84%
Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
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