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.
Authors
- Andrey Yachmenev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8770-6919)
- Emil Vogt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3335-9813)
- Yahya Saleh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3235-217X)
- Álvaro Fernández Corral (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5727-5578)
Institutions
- Universität Hamburg (DE)
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (DE)
- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Published
- 2025-08-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0287347
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- European Commission
- HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme
- HORIZON EUROPE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions