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Nonadiabatic coupling between electrons and molecular motion at metal surfaces leads to energy dissipation and dynamical steering effects during chemical surface dynamics. We present a theoretical approach to the scattering of molecules…

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Every physical regime is some sort of approximation of reality. One lesser-known realm that is the semiquantal regime, which may be used to describe systems with both classical and quantum subcomponents. In the present review, we discuss…

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The fast forward scheme of adiabatic quantum dynamics is applied to finite regular spin clusters with various geometries and the nature of driving interactions is elucidated. The fast forward is the quasi-adiabatic dynamics guaranteed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Iwan Setiawan , Bobby Eka Gunara , Sanat Avazbaev , Katsuhiro Nakamura

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

We explore the simulation of conical intersections (CIs) on quantum devices, setting the groundwork for potential applications in nonadiabatic quantum dynamics within molecular systems. The intersecting potential energy surfaces of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Yuchen Wang , David A. Mazziotti

Quantum interference takes center stage in the realm of quantum particles, playing a crucial role in revealing their wave-like nature and probabilistic behavior. It relies on the concept of superposition, where the probability amplitudes of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Sajad Ahmadi , Mohsen Akbari , Shahpoor Saeidian , Ali Motazedifard

Coherent dynamics of atomic matter waves in a standing-wave laser field is studied. In the dressed-state picture, wave packets of ballistic two-level atoms propagate simultaneously in two optical potentials. The probability to make a…

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If the photon energy is much less than the electron binding energy, ionization of an atom by a strong optical field is often described in terms of electron tunneling through the potential barrier resulting from the superposition of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 Antonia Karamatskou , Stefan Pabst , Robin Santra

We describe the decoherence process induced on a two-level quantum system in direct interaction with a non-equilibrium environment. The non-equilibrium feature is represented by a non-stationary random function corresponding to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Fernando C. Lombardo , Paula I. Villar

A novel method of coherent manipulation of the electron tunneling in quantum-dots is proposed, which utilizes the quantum interference in nonadiabatic double-crossing of the discrete energy levels. In this method, we need only a smoothly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Keiji Saito , Yosuke Kayanuma

We show that the difference of adiabatic phases, that are basis-dependent, in noncyclic evolution of non-degenerate quantum systems have to be taken into account to give the correct interference result in the calculation of physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-07 M. T. Thomaz , A. C. Aguiar Pinto , M. Moutinho

Diffraction phenomena usually can be formulated in terms of a potential that induces the redistribution of a wave's momentum. Using an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate coupled to the orbitals of a state-selective optical lattice, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-26 Jeremy Reeves , Ludwig Krinner , Michael Stewart , Arturo Pazmiño , Dominik Schneble

We examine time-resolved X-ray diffraction from molecules in the gas phase which undergo nonadiabatic avoided-crossing dynamics involving strongly coupled electrons and nuclei. Several contributions to the signal are identified,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-05-30 Markus Kowalewski , Kochise Bennett , Shaul Mukamel

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

Incorporating nuclear quantum effects into nonadiabatic dynamics remains a significant challenge. Herein we introduce new nonadiabatic dynamics approaches based on the recently developed constrained nuclear-electronic orbital (CNEO) theory.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Zhe Liu , Zehua Chen , Yang Yang

The nonadiabatic photodissociation dynamics of alkali halide molecules excited by a femtosecond laser pulse in the gas phase are investigated theoretically, and it is shown that the population of the photoexcited molecules exhibits…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Yuta Mizuno , Koji Hukushima

The molecular junction geometry is modelled in terms of nuclear degrees of freedom that are embedded in a stochastic quantum environment of non-equilibrium electrons. Time-evolution of the molecular geometry is governed via a mean force, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Vincent F. Kershaw , Daniel S. Kosov

One of the intriguing effects due to conical intersections is the geometric phase, manifested as destructive quantum interference in the nuclear probability distribution. However, whether such geometric phaseinduced interference can survive…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Xiang Li , Bing Gu