Imaginary time path integral Monte Carlo route to rate coefficients for nonadiabatic barrier crossing

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Abstract
Nonadiabatic transitions such as some biological electron transfers are difficult to simulate on a computer because they seem to need long real time quantum dynamics simulations. In fact rates are often dominated by saddle point trajectories in imaginary time. This paper describes a way in which this observation can be exploited with path integral Monte Carlo methods.