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Newton-X

Newton-X is a general program for molecular dynamics simulations beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. It has been primarily used for simulations of ultrafast processes ( femtosecond to picosecond time scale) in photoexcited molecules. It has also been used for simulation of band envelops of absorption and emission spectra.

Newton-X uses the trajectory surface hopping method, a semi-classical approximation in which the nuclei are treated classically by Newtonian dynamics, while the electrons are treated as a quantum subsystem via a local approximation of the Time-dependent Schrödinger Equation. Nonadiabatic effects (the spread of the nuclear wave packet between several states) are recovered by a stochastic algorithm, which allows individual trajectories to change between different potential energy states during the dynamics.