Quantum work distribution for a driven diatomic molecule
Statistical Mechanics
2014-11-21 v2 Chemical Physics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We compute the quantum work distribution for a driven Morse oscillator. To this end, we solve the time-dependent dynamics for a scale-invariant process, from which the exact expressions for the transition probabilities are found. Special emphasis is put on the contributions to the work distribution from discrete (bound) and continuous (scattering) parts of the spectrum. The analysis is concluded by comparing the work distribution for the exact Morse potential and the one resulting from a harmonic approximation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1409.0739,
title = {Quantum work distribution for a driven diatomic molecule},
author = {Alison Leonard and Sebastian Deffner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.0739},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
8 pages, 11 figures; published version