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Describing the dynamics of nuclei in molecules requires a potential energy surface, which is traditionally provided by the Born-Oppenheimer or adiabatic approximation. However, we also need to assign masses to the nuclei. There, the…

By resorting to a model inspired to the standard Davydov and Holstein-Fr\"ohlich models, in the present paper we study the motion of an electron along a chain of heavy particles modelling a sequence of nucleotides proper to a DNA fragment.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-08-17 Elham Faraji , Roberto Franzosi , Stefano Mancini , Marco Pettini

We consider non-adiabatic transitions in multiple dimensions, which occur when the Born-Oppenheimer approximation breaks down. We present a general, multi-dimensional algorithm which can be used to accurately and efficiently compute the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-04-16 V. Betz , B. D. Goddard , T. Hurst

All living cells transport molecules and ions across membranes, often against concentration gradients. This active transport requires continual energy expenditure and is clearly a nonequilibrium process for which standard equilibrium…

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We study low-energy dynamics generated by a two-dimensional two-state Jahn-Teller Hamiltonian in the vicinity of a conical intersection using quantum wavepacket and trajectories dynamics. Recently, these dynamics were studied by comparing…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Lea M. Ibele , Federica Agostini

We present general first principles derivation of expression for current-induced forces. The expression is applicable in non-equilibrium molecular systems with arbitrary intra-molecular interactions and for any electron-nuclei coupling. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Feng Chen , Kuniyuki Miwa , Michael Galperin

The density-functional approach to quantum electrodynamics is extending traditional density-functional theory and opens the possibility to describe electron-photon interactions in terms of effective Kohn-Sham potentials. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Johannes Flick , Michael Ruggenthaler , Heiko Appel , Angel Rubio

The Exact Factorization (EF) theory aims at the separation of the nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom in the many-body (MB) quantum mechanical problem. Being formally equivalent to the solution of the MB Schr\"{o}dinger equation, EF…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Vladimir U. Nazarov , E. K. U. Gross

A non-adiabatic nuclear wavepacket dynamics simulation of the H$_2$O$^+$ de-excitation process is performed based on electronic structure calculations using the variational quantum eigensolver. The adiabatic potential energy surfaces and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Hirotoshi Hirai , Sho Koh

We have developed an approximate way of dealing with explicit energy-dependence of non-local nucleon optical potentials as used to predict the $(d,p)$ cross sections within the adiabatic theory. Within this approximation, the non-local…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 R. C. Johnson , N. K. Timofeyuk

This dissertation deals with theoretical descriptions of nuclear fission and synthesis of superheavy elements via fusion. The associated shape evolutions are treated using a random-walk approach where both the potential energy and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-12 M. Albertsson

We show that the time dependent single electron, nuclear density matrix of an interacting electronic system coupled to nuclear degrees of freedom can be exactly reproduced by that of an electronic system with arbitrarily specified…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-07 Vinod Krishna

An exact analytical solution is derived for the wavefunction of an electron in a one-dimensional moving quantum dot in a nanowire, in the presence of time-dependent spin-orbit coupling. For cyclic evolutions we show that the spin of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 T. Cadez , J. H. Jefferson , A. Ramsak

We propose an approximate method for evaluating the importance of non-Born-Oppenheimer effects on the quantum dynamics of nuclei. The method uses a generalization of the dephasing representation (DR) of quantum fidelity to several diabatic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-01-15 Tomas Zimmermann , Jiri Vanicek

The nonperturbative guiding-center model provides an exact alternative to full-orbit simulations of charged particle dynamics in situations where traditional guiding-center theory may fail. We demonstrate that the charged particle motion in…

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Non-aligning self-propelled particles with purely repulsive excluded volume interactions undergo athermal motility-induced phase separation into a dilute gas and a dense cluster phase. Here, we use enhanced sampling computational methods…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-05 Gabriel S. Redner , Caleb G. Wagner , Aparna Baskaran , Michael F. Hagan

A classical dynamical model that treats break-up stochastically is presented for low energy reactions of weakly-bound nuclei. The three-dimensional model allows a consistent calculation of breakup, incomplete and complete fusion cross…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Diaz-Torres , D. J. Hinde , J. A. Tostevin , M. Dasgupta , L. R. Gasques

Demonstration of Majorana non-Abelian properties is a major challenge in the field of topological superconductivity. In this work, we propose a minimal device and protocol for testing non-Abelian properties using charge-transfer operations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Svend Krøjer , Rubén Seoane Souto , Karsten Flensberg

Photoionization using attosecond pulses can lead to the formation of coherent superpositions of the electronic states of the parent ion. However, ultrafast electron ejection triggers not only electronic but also nuclear dynamics---leading…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Caroline Arnold , Oriol Vendrell , Robin Santra