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.

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Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
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2026-04-22
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https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.6c00338
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Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry
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New Framework for Multi-Electronic-State Dynamics and Its Validation for Photoisomerization of 1,3-Cyclohexadiene

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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.

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