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We explain the concept of superadiabatic approximations and show how in the context of the Born- Oppenheimer approximation they lead to an explicit formula that can be used to predict transitions at avoided crossings. Based on this formula,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Volker Betz , Benjamin D. Goddard , Uwe Manthe

We derive the formalism for the leading order corrections to the adiabatic approximation to the scattering of composite projectiles. Assuming a two-body projectile of core plus loosely-bound valence particle and a model (the core recoil…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 N. C. Summers , J. S. Al-Khalili , R. C. Johnson

In this work, we illustrate the recently introduced concept of the cavity Born-Oppenheimer approximation for correlated electron-nuclear-photon problems in detail. We demonstrate how an expansion in terms of conditional electronic and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Johannes Flick , Heiko Appel , Michael Ruggenthaler , Angel Rubio

The assumptions underpinning the adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximation are broken for molecules interacting with attosecond laser pulses, which generate complicated coupled electronic-nuclear wavepackets that generally will have…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 Aleksander P. Woźniak , Ludwik Adamowicz , Thomas Bondo Pedersen , Simen Kvaal

We extend the rigorous adiabatic coupled-channel formalism to ultracold nonreactive atom-molecule collisions in the presence of an external magnetic field. The wavefunction of the collision complex is expanded in adiabatic basis states…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Nathan S. Prins , Timur V. Tscherbul

We derive an accurate molecular orbital based expression for the coherent time evolution of a two-electron wave function in a quantum dot molecule where the electrons interact with each other, with external time dependent electromagnetic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Nepstad , L. Sælen , J. P. Hansen

In this paper we propose an ab initio method to solve quantum many-body problems of molecular dynamics where both the electronic and the nuclear degrees are represented by ensembles of trajectories and guiding waves in physical space. Both…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Ivan P. Christov

The coupling of a molecule and a cavity induces non-adiabaticity in the molecule which makes the description of its dynamics complicated. For polyatomic molecules, reduced-dimensional models and the use of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Csaba Fábri , Gábor J. Halász , Lorenz S. Cederbaum , Ágnes Vibók

Constructing an accurate approximation to nonadiabatic rate theory which is valid for arbitrary values of the electronic coupling has been a long-standing challenge in theoretical chemistry. Ring-polymer instanton theories offer a very…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Rhiannon A. Zarotiadis , Joseph E. Lawrence , Jeremy O. Richardson

Coulomb corrections for quasi-elastic scattering of electrons by nuclei are calculated using eikonal distorted waves. Corrections to the lowest-order eikonal approximation are included in order to obtain accurate results. Spin-dependent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. A. Tjon , S. J. Wallace

We develop a formalism to accurately account for the renormalization of electronic structure due to quantum and thermal nuclear motions within the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. We focus on the fundamental energy gap obtained from…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-03 Vitaly Gorelov , David M. Ceperley , Markus Holzmann , Carlo Pierleoni

We revisit the three-body problem in quantum mechanics in two and three dimensions, generating both exact eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Hamiltonian and a series of approximate solutions as calculated with a variety of different…

Accurate description of nonadiabatic dynamics of molecules at metal surfaces involving electron transfer has been a longstanding challenge for theory. Here, we tackle this problem by first constructing high-dimensional neural network…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-05 Gang Meng , James Gardner , Wenjie Dou , Reinhard J. Maurer , Bin Jiang

The problem of proton-antiproton motion in the ${\rm H}$--${\rm \bar{H}}$ system is investigated by means of the variational method. We introduce a modified nuclear interaction through mass-scaling of the Born-Oppenheimer potential. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Henrik Stegeby , Konrad Piszczatowski , Hans O Karlsson , Roland Lindh , Piotr Froelich

We present a novel semiclassical phase-space surface hopping approach that goes beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation and all existing surface hopping formalisms. We demonstrate that working with a correct phase-space electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Xuezhi Bian , Yanze Wu , Tian Qiu , Tao Zhen , Joseph E. Subotnik

Motivated by a paper by B.T. Sutcliffe and R.G. Woolley, we present the main ideas used by mathematicians to show the accuracy of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation for molecules. Based on mathematical works on this approximation for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Thierry Jecko

In this paper, we discuss the compatibility between the rotating-wave and the adiabatic approximations for controlled quantum systems. Although the paper focuses on applications to two-level quantum systems, the main results apply in higher…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Nicolas Augier , Ugo Boscain , Mario Sigalotti

A theory of electronic friction is developed using the exact factorization of the electron-nuclear wavefunction. No assumption is made regarding the electronic bath, which can be made of independent or interacting electrons, and the nuclei…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Rocco Martinazzo , Irene Burghardt

The adiabatic distorted wave approximation (ADWA) is widely used by the nuclear community to analyse deuteron stripping ($d$,$p$) experiments. It provides a quick way to take into account an important property of the reaction mechanism:…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-08 Laura Moschini , Natalia K. Timofeyuk , Ronald C. Johnson

We present explicit form of non-adiabatic coupling (NAC) elements of nuclear Schroedinger equation (SE) for a coupled tri-state electronic manifold in terms of mixing angles of real electronic basis functions. If the adiabatic-diabatic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Biplab Sarkar , Satrajit Adhikari