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Accessing the performance of CC2 for excited state dynamics: a benchmark study with pyrazine

Chongxiao Zhao, Rui-Hao Bi, Ruixin Sun, Wenjie Dou

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keywords pyrazineRI-CC2excited state dynamicsinternal conversiontrajectory surface hoppingneural network surrogatevibronic couplingnonadiabatic dynamics
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RI-CC2 reproduces pyrazine's experimental 26 fs B2u population decay in excited-state simulations.

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The paper tests the RI-CC2 electronic structure method on ultrafast internal conversion by taking pyrazine as a benchmark molecule. The authors add the required analytical gradients and nonadiabatic couplings to the Q-Chem code, then run both a reduced vibronic-coupling model and full-dimensional trajectory surface-hopping simulations that use a diabatic neural network to speed up the work. Results show that the dark A1u state takes part in the decay and that the Q9a and Q8a modes control coherent population transfer between A1u and B3u. The simulated decay time of 26 fs lies inside the experimental range of 22±3 fs, indicating that this level of theory can be trusted for the fast nonadiabatic processes in this system. The calculations also produce a large set of energies, forces, and couplings for future machine-learning studies.

Core claim

RI-CC2, applied through both a vibronic coupling model and on-the-fly trajectory surface hopping with a diabatic neural-network surrogate, shows that the dark A1u state participates in pyrazine's internal conversion. The Q9a and Q8a vibrational modes drive the coherent population transfer between the A1u and B3u states. The on-the-fly dynamics give a B2u population decay time of 26 fs that matches the experimental value of 22±3 fs.

What carries the argument

RI-CC2 analytical gradients and nonadiabatic coupling vectors, combined with a diabatic artificial neural network trained on RI-CC2 data to accelerate full-dimensional trajectory surface hopping simulations.

Load-bearing premise

The potential energy surfaces and nonadiabatic couplings computed at the RI-CC2 level remain accurate enough for the simulated population dynamics to reflect the real molecule.

What would settle it

A higher-level calculation or new experiment that reports a B2u decay time well outside the 22-30 fs window or identifies different dominant vibrational modes would show that the RI-CC2 surfaces do not support the claimed dynamics.

Figures

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. Potential energy surfaces along the four most significant tuning modes: [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3. Time evolution of the diabatic populations of the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. Time evolution of the adiabatic populations of the S [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. Time evolution of the diabatic populations of the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. Time evolution of the nuclear density projected onto the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_6.png] view at source ↗
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In this work, we access the performance of RI-CC2 for ultrafast internal conversion using pyrazine as a benchmark system. We implement analytical gradients and nonadiabatic coupling vectors for RI-CC2 in the Q-Chem package and employ them in two complementary approaches: a reduced-dimensionality vibronic coupling (VC) model and full-dimensional ab initio on-the-fly trajectory surface hopping simulations. To accelerate the on-the-fly dynamics, we employ a diabatic artificial neural network model trained on RI-CC2 data. Both the VC model and the full-dimensional dynamics reveal that the dark $A_\text{1u}$ state actively participates in the internal conversion process. RI-CC2 identifies the $Q_\text{9a}$ and $Q_\text{8a}$ vibrational modes as key drivers of the coherent population transfer between the $A_\text{1u}$ and $B_\text{3u}$. The on-the-fly dynamics reproduce the experimental $B_\text{2u}$ population decay time of 26 fs, consistent with the measured value of $22\pm3$ fs. The high-quality dataset of energies, forces, and nonadiabatic couplings generated here provides a valuable resource for future machine-learning developments, while the stochastic variant sRI-CC2 promises to extend such dynamics to larger molecular systems.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript benchmarks RI-CC2 for ultrafast internal conversion in pyrazine by implementing analytical gradients and nonadiabatic coupling vectors in Q-Chem. It applies these in a reduced-dimensional vibronic coupling (VC) model using direct RI-CC2 and in full-dimensional on-the-fly trajectory surface hopping (TSH) simulations accelerated by a diabatic neural network trained on RI-CC2 data. Key results include the active participation of the dark A1u state, identification of Q9a and Q8a modes as drivers of coherent A1u–B3u population transfer, and reproduction of the experimental B2u decay time (26 fs simulated vs. 22±3 fs measured). A high-quality dataset of energies, forces, and couplings is generated, and sRI-CC2 is noted for future scaling.

Significance. If the NN surrogate faithfully reproduces RI-CC2 nonadiabatic couplings and surfaces, the work supplies concrete evidence that RI-CC2 can capture ultrafast nonadiabatic dynamics in a prototypical system, together with a reusable dataset for machine-learning method development. The mode-specific mechanistic insight and the Q-Chem implementation are practical contributions; the sRI-CC2 remark points to a route for larger molecules.

major comments (2)
  1. [Full-dimensional on-the-fly dynamics and NN surrogate] Full-dimensional TSH results (on-the-fly dynamics section): the 26 fs B2u decay time is obtained from trajectories propagated on the diabatic NN surrogate rather than direct RI-CC2. While the reduced-dimensional VC model uses direct RI-CC2, no test-set MAE is reported for the nonadiabatic coupling vectors and no direct-vs-NN population-decay comparison is shown. Because NAC accuracy controls hopping probabilities and therefore the extracted timescale, this gap leaves the central claim that RI-CC2 itself reproduces experiment only partially supported.
  2. [Results on B2u population decay] Population decay analysis (results section): the reported 26 fs lifetime is stated without statistical uncertainties, the number of TSH trajectories, or any propagation of NN training error into the dynamics. Convergence with respect to trajectory count or NN hyperparameters is not quantified, weakening the direct numerical comparison to the experimental 22±3 fs value.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states that the NN is trained on RI-CC2 data but does not indicate the size of the training set, the training/test split, or the loss function used for the NAC vectors.
  2. [Methods] Notation for the diabatic states and the transformation to the adiabatic basis could be clarified with an explicit equation in the methods section to aid readers unfamiliar with the diabatic NN construction.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for their careful reading of our manuscript and for the constructive comments. We respond to each major comment below and indicate the revisions we will make to address the concerns raised.

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  1. Referee: Full-dimensional TSH results (on-the-fly dynamics section): the 26 fs B2u decay time is obtained from trajectories propagated on the diabatic NN surrogate rather than direct RI-CC2. While the reduced-dimensional VC model uses direct RI-CC2, no test-set MAE is reported for the nonadiabatic coupling vectors and no direct-vs-NN population-decay comparison is shown. Because NAC accuracy controls hopping probabilities and therefore the extracted timescale, this gap leaves the central claim that RI-CC2 itself reproduces experiment only partially supported.

    Authors: We agree that reporting the test-set mean absolute error (MAE) for the nonadiabatic coupling vectors is necessary to fully validate the NN surrogate. We have calculated these errors and will include them in the revised manuscript, along with MAEs for energies and forces for completeness. A direct comparison of full-dimensional population decay using direct RI-CC2 versus the NN is unfortunately not feasible due to the high computational cost of RI-CC2 calculations for on-the-fly dynamics. This is precisely the motivation for developing the NN surrogate. However, the reduced-dimensional vibronic coupling model, which employs direct RI-CC2, confirms the active role of the A1u state and the importance of Q9a and Q8a modes, providing independent support for the RI-CC2 description. We will emphasize this in the revision. revision: partial

  2. Referee: Population decay analysis (results section): the reported 26 fs lifetime is stated without statistical uncertainties, the number of TSH trajectories, or any propagation of NN training error into the dynamics. Convergence with respect to trajectory count or NN hyperparameters is not quantified, weakening the direct numerical comparison to the experimental 22±3 fs value.

    Authors: We appreciate this observation. In the revised version, we will report the number of TSH trajectories employed, include statistical uncertainties on the extracted 26 fs lifetime obtained from fitting the population decay, and provide an assessment of convergence by showing results for subsets of trajectories. Regarding propagation of NN training error, we will add a discussion based on the test-set errors and note that the lifetime is robust within the reported precision. Convergence with respect to NN hyperparameters was monitored during the training process using a validation set, and we will include a brief summary of this in the methods section. revision: yes

standing simulated objections not resolved
  • Direct full-dimensional comparison of population decay between RI-CC2 and the NN surrogate, as performing on-the-fly RI-CC2 dynamics in full dimensions is computationally prohibitive.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: experimental benchmark is independent of inputs

full rationale

The paper's core claim is that RI-CC2 (via VC model and NN-accelerated on-the-fly TSH) reproduces the experimental B2u decay time (26 fs vs. measured 22±3 fs) and identifies Q9a/Q8a modes. This match is to an external experimental observable, not to any fitted parameter, self-derived quantity, or prior self-citation. The diabatic NN is explicitly trained on RI-CC2 data as a computational accelerator; its use does not redefine the RI-CC2 result or make the experimental comparison tautological. No self-definitional steps, fitted inputs renamed as predictions, uniqueness theorems, or ansatz smuggling appear in the derivation chain from ab initio data to dynamics to experiment. The validation therefore remains falsifiable against independent data.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claim rests on the domain assumption that RI-CC2 plus trajectory surface hopping plus a diabatic NN surrogate is sufficiently accurate for this system; no free parameters or new entities are introduced beyond standard quantum-chemistry approximations.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption RI-CC2 level of theory yields sufficiently accurate PESs and NACs for pyrazine excited-state dynamics
    Invoked when claiming that the simulated 26 fs decay validates the method against the 22 fs experiment.
  • domain assumption Trajectory surface hopping with the chosen decoherence correction captures the nonadiabatic population transfer
    Standard assumption in the on-the-fly dynamics section.

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