New Framework for Multi-Electronic-State Dynamics and Its Validation for Photoisomerization of 1,3-Cyclohexadiene
intersections, and ring-opening quantum yields of 43-53%. ODM3.25-SRP enables nonadiabatic dynamics of cyclohexadiene with XMS-CASPT2 quality and an expanded active space while reducing the computation time by a factor of 65. This work demonstrates that treating ODM3.25 as a domain-specific foundation model and fine-tuning it via SRP yields a computationally efficient, chemically accurate multistate potential capable of describing complex photodynamics at a fraction of the cost of high-level ab initio methods. This establishes SRP-based custom excited-state models as a powerful new tool for large-scale nonadiabatic dynamics.
Authors
- Yinan Shu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8371-0221)
- Linyao Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1848-8860)
- Donald G. Truhlar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7742-7294)
- Zihan Pengmei
- Zhaowei Shang
Institutions
- Harbin Institute of Technology (CN)
- University of Minnesota System (US)
- University of Chicago (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
- Published
- 2026-04-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.6c00338
- Primary Topic
- Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Basic Energy Sciences