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Vibrational and coherence dynamics of molecules

Quantum Physics 2016-01-06 v1 Chemical Physics

Abstract

We {\it analytically} investigate the population and coherence dynamics and relaxations in the vibrational energy transport in molecules. The corresponding two time scales t1t_1 and t2t_2 are explored. Coherence-population entanglement is found to considerably promote the time scale t2t_2 for dephasing and the amplitude of coherence. This is attributed to the suppression of the environment-induced drift force by coherence. Moreover the population imbalance (magnetization) is shown to be significantly amplified with the coherence-population entanglement. Contrary to the previous studies, we exactly elucidate a coherent process by showing t1<t2t_1<t_2. We predict the relaxation of vibrational and orientational dynamics of OH-stretching modes in agreement with the recent experiments, when applied to the water molecules dissolved in D2_2O. Finally we explore the coherence effect on the heat current at the macroscopic level.

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@article{arxiv.1512.08965,
  title  = {Vibrational and coherence dynamics of molecules},
  author = {Zhedong Zhang and Jin Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.08965},
  year   = {2016}
}

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7 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables

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