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We introduce a combined molecular dynamics (MD) and quantum trajectories (QT) code to simulate the effects of near-resonant optical fields on state-vector evolution and particle motion in a collisional system. In contrast to collisionless…

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We study the magnetic properties in the vicinity of a single carbon defect in a monolayer of graphene. We include the unbound $\sigma$ orbital and the vacancy induced bound $\pi$ state in an effective two-orbital single impurity model. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Daniel May , Po-Wei Lo , Kira Deltenre , Anika Henke , Jinhai Mao , Yuhang Jiang , Guohong Li , Eva Y. Andrei , Guang-Yu Guo , Frithjof B. Anders

We considered a graphene nano-ribbon with a longitudinal electric field (along $x$ direction) and a transversal magnetic field (along $z$ direction), and then observe (i) the electrocaloric effect ruled by an applied magnetic field and (ii)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-03 M. S. Reis

First-principles molecular dynamics (FPMD) simulations were applied for the paraelectric-ferroelectric phase transition in the perovskite-type cadmium titanate, CdTiO3. Since the phase transition is reported to occur at the low temperature…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-20 Kansei Kanayama , Kazuaki Toyoura

We investigate the effect of nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) of hydrogen atoms on the elasticity of ice VII at high pressure and ambient temperature conditions using ab initio path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) calculations. We find…

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This study investigates the influence of quantum effects on Coulomb explosion dynamics using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) simulations, comparing classical, semi-classical, and quantum approaches. The goal is to elucidate…

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We study the electronic and magnetic properties of multilayer quantum dots (MQDs) of graphite in the nearest-neighbor approximation of tight-binding model. We calculate the electronic density of states and orbital susceptibility of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-19 Hazem Abdelsalam , Tania Espinosa-Ortega , Igor Lukyanchuk

Quantum shape effect appears under the size-invariant shape transformations of strongly confined structures. Such a transformation distinctively influences the thermodynamic properties of confined particles. Due to their characteristic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Alhun Aydin , Jonas Fransson , Altug Sisman

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation based on Langevin equation has been widely used in the study of structural, thermal properties of matters in difference phases. Normally, the atomic dynamics are described by classical equations of motion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Jing-Tao Lü , Bing-Zhong Hu , Per Hedegård , Mads Brandbyge

We theoretically investigate the quantum reflection of different atoms by two-dimensional (2D) materials of the graphene family (silicene, germanene, and stanene), subjected to an external electric field and circularly polarized light. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 P. P. Abrantes , Tarik P. Cysne , D. Szilard , F. S. S. Rosa , F. A. Pinheiro , C. Farina

We present the coupling of two frameworks -- the pseudo-open boundary simulation method known as constant potential Molecular Dynamics simulations (C$\mu$MD), combined with QMMD calculations -- to describe the properties of graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-19 Nicodemo Di Pasquale , Aaron R. Finney , Joshua Elliott , Paola Carbone , Matteo Salvalaglio

We investigate the occurrence of genuine quantum effects and beyond mean-field physics in the balanced and unbalanced open Dicke model with a large, yet finite number of atoms $N$. Such driven and dissipative quantum many-body systems have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Kai Müller , Walter T. Strunz

Attempts to understand zero temperature phase transitions have forced physicists to consider a regime where the standard paradigms of condensed matter physics break down [1-4]. These quantum critical systems lack a simple description in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-07-04 Kaden R. A. Hazzard , Erich J. Mueller

A Path Integral Monte Carlo method is used to investigate the thermodynamics of nuclear like systems. Systems composed of bosons or fermions interracting via a Lennard-Jones potential with periodic boundary conditions were simulated and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-09-02 A. H. Raduta

We present results from Molecular Dynamics simulations of the thermal glass transition in a dense polymer melt. In previous work we compared the simulation data with the idealized version of mode coupling theory (MCT) and found that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Christoph Bennemann , Wolfgang Paul , J"org Baschnagel , Kurt Binder

Developing efficient path integral (PI) methods for atomistic simulations of vibrational spectra in heterogeneous condensed phases and interfaces has long been a challenging task. Here, we present the h-CMD method, short for hybrid centroid…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Dil K. Limbu , Nathan London , Md Omar Faruque , Mohammad R. Momeni

Quantum simulation aims to recreate complex many-body phenomena in controlled environments, offering insights into dynamics that are otherwise difficult to model. Existing platforms, however, are often complex and costly to scale, typically…

The excitation of vibrational modes in molecules affects the outcome of chemical reactions, for example by providing molecules with sufficient energy to overcome activation barriers. In this work, we introduce a quantum algorithm for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Soran Jahangiri , Juan Miguel Arrazola , Nicolás Quesada , Alain Delgado

Supercooled water is expected to exhibit a liquid--liquid phase transition between low- and high-density liquid states, possibly terminating in a liquid--liquid critical point in the experimentally difficult no man's land. Because the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Michael Beerbaum , Julian Heske , Jure Gujt , Thomas D. Kühne

The integer quantum Hall states at fillings $\nu = 0$ and $|\nu| = 1$ in monolayer graphene have drawn much attention as they are generated by electron-electron interactions. Here we explore aspects of the $\nu = 0$ and $|\nu| = 1$ quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-09 Hank Chen , Matthew R. C. Fitzpatrick , Sujit Narayanan , Bitan Roy , Malcolm P. Kennett