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Understanding complex quantum dynamics in realistic materials requires insight into the underlying correlations dominating the interactions between the participating particles. Due to the wealth of information involved in these processes,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-19 Adva Baratz , Galit Cohen , Sivan Refaely-Abramson

Mixed-quantum-classical molecular dynamics simulation implies an effective measurement on the electronic states owing to continuously tracking the atomic forces.Based on this insight, we propose a quantum trajectory mean-field approach for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-08-08 Wei Feng , Luting Xu , Xin-Qi Li , Weihai Fang , YiJing Yan

On-the-fly quantum nonadiabatic dynamics for large systems greatly benefits from the adiabatic representation readily available from the electronic structure programs. However, frequently occurring in this representation conical…

The exact nuclear time-dependent potential energy surface arises from the exact decomposition of electronic and nuclear motion, recently presented in [A. Abedi, N. T. Maitra, and E. K. U. Gross, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123002 (2010)]. Such…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Federica Agostini , Ali Abedi , Yasumitsu Suzuki , E. K. U. Gross

The combined quantum electron-nuclear dynamics is often associated with the Born-Huang expansion of the molecular wave function and the appearance of nonadiabatic effects as a perturbation. On the other hand, native multicomponent…

Both the physical picture of the dynamics of atoms and molecules in intense infrared fields and its theoretical description use the concept of electron trajectories. Here we address a key question which arises in this context: Are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 L. I. Plimak , Misha Yu. Ivanov

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

Simulating photon dynamics in strong light-matter coupling situations via classical trajectories is proving to be powerful and practical. Here we analyze the performance of the approach through the lens of the exact factorization approach.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Bart Rosenzweig , Norah M. Hoffmann , Lionel Lacombe , Neepa T. Maitra

The coupled-trajectory mixed quantum classical method (CTMQC), derived from the exact factorization approach, has successfully predicted photo-chemical dynamics in a number of interesting molecules, capturing population transfer and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Evaristo Villaseco Arribas , Neepa T. Maitra

We analyze a mixed quantum-classical algorithm recently derived from the exact factorization equations [Min, Agostini, Gross, PRL {\bf 115}, 073001 (2015)] to show the role of the different terms in the algorithm in bringing about…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-05-10 Graeme H. Gossel , Federica Agostini , Neepa T. Maitra

The increasing need to simulate the dynamics of photoexcited molecular and nanosystems in the sub-picosecond regime demands new efficient tools able to describe the quantum nature of matter at a low computational cost. By combining the…

An approach to electron correlation effects in atoms that uses quantum trajectories is presented. A comparison with the exact quantum mechanical results for 1D Helium atom shows that the major features of the correlated ground state…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Ivan P. Christov

We study the real-time evolution of an electron influenced by intense electromagnetic fields using the time-dependent basis light-front quantization (tBLFQ) framework. We focus on demonstrating the non-perturbative feature of the tBLFQ…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-06-07 Guangyao Chen , Xingbo Zhao , Yang Li , Kirill Tuchin , James P. Vary

We propose a novel method to describe realistically ionization processes with absorbing boundary conditions in basis expansion within the formalism of the so-called Non-Adiabatic Quantum Molecular Dynamics. This theory couples…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Mathias Uhlmann , Thomas Kunert , Ruediger Schmidt

The theoretical investigation of non-adiabatic processes is hampered by the complexity of the coupled electron-nuclear dynamics beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. Classically, the simulation of such reactions is limited by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-06 Pauline J. Ollitrault , Guglielmo Mazzola , Ivano Tavernelli

Nuclear quantum effects and non-Born--Oppenheimer effects play a vital role in many chemical and biological processes, motivating the incorporation of such effects into dynamical simulations. In real-time nuclear--electronic orbital…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Nicholas J. Boyer , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

The Exact Factorization (XF) of molecular wavefunctions can be viewed as an 'electronic wavepacket' framework for quantum dynamics. It is an appealing alternative to the conventional non-adiabatic dynamics, unfolding in the space of coupled…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Julian Stetzler , Sophya Garashchuk , Vitaly A. Rassolov

The exact factorization of an electron-nuclear wavefunction [A. Abedi, N. T. Maitra, and E. K. U. Gross, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123002 (2010)] allows us to define the rigorous nuclear time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation (TDSE) with a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 Yasumitsu Suzuki , Kazuyuki Watanabe

The characterization of quantum dynamics is a fundamental and central task in quantum mechanics. This task is typically addressed by quantum process tomography (QPT). Here we present an alternative "direct characterization of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Mohseni , D. A. Lidar

We consider a charged particle driven by a time-dependent flux threading a quantum ring. The dynamics of the charged particle is investigated using classical treatment, Fourier expansion technique, time-evolution method, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-29 Pi-Gang Luan , Chi-Shung Tang