A fast and robust trajectory surface hopping method: Application to the intermolecular photodissociation of a carbon dioxide dimer cation (CO

Our recently developed trajectory surface hopping method uses numerical time derivatives of adiabatic potential gradients to estimate the nonadiabatic transition probability and the hopping direction. To demonstrate the practicality of the novel method, we applied it to the intermolecular photodissociation of a carbon dioxide dimer cation (CO