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However, nuclear thermal motion destroys translation symmetry. Here, we describe two approaches relevant to the time evolution of electronic states in the presence of thermal fluctuations. On the one hand, the direct solution of the time-dependent Schrodinger equation for a tight-binding model reveals the diabatic nature of time evolution. On the other hand, because of random nuclear configurations, the electronic Hamiltonian falls into the class of random matrices, which have universal features in their energy spectra. 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