Fig. 6

Energy surfaces and their electronic populations. Each bath state ϕi (i = 1–5) creates its own set of five energy surfaces, computed as the eigenstates of Veff(t) (PES) shown in (a) or Heff(t) (TES) shown in (b). The filled areas indicate the amount of the electronic population on each surface. The surfaces are coloured according to their amplitudes of each diabatic electronic states they contain. The red and black arrows on the TES indicate important events that lead to fission by an adiabatic avoided crossing, as decribed in the text