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An atom moving in a vacuum at constant velocity and parallel to a surface experiences a frictional force induced by the dissipative interaction with the quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. We show that the combination of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 F. Intravaia , M. Oelschläger , D. Reiche , D. A. R. Dalvit , K. Busch

Conventional theoretical and computational approaches to fully coupled quantum molecular dynamics, i.e. when both the electrons and nuclei are treated as quantum-mechanical particles, are impractical for all but the smallest chemical…

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

In our recent paper [Mosallanejad et al., Phys. Rev. B 107(18), 184314, 2023], we have derived a Floquet electronic friction model to describe nonadiabatic molecular dynamics near metal surfaces in the presence of periodic driving. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Jingqi Chen , Wei Liu , Wenjie Dou

A thermal model of kinetic friction is assigned to a classical loaded particle moving on a fluctuating smooth surface. A sinusoidal wave resembles surface fluctuations with a relaxation time. The Hamiltonian is approximated to the mean…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-08 Rasoul Kheiri

A new quantum mechanical wave equation describing a particle with frictional forces is derived. It depends on a parameter $\alpha$ whose range is determined by the coefficient of friction $\gamma$, that is, $0 \leq \alpha \leq \gamma$. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Alexios P. Polychronakos , Rodanthy Tzani

Dispersion forces between neutral material bodies are due to fluctuations of the polarization of the bodies. For bodies in equilibrium these forces are often referred to as Casimir-Lifshitz forces. For bodies in relative motion, in addition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-12 Iver Brevik , Boris Shapiro , Mário Silveirinha

We propose mixed quantum-classical equations of motion that unify electronic coherence and phase evolution simultaneously within the exact factorization framework. Our derivation shows that incorporating the second-order electron-nuclear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jong-Kwon Ha , Seong Ho Kim , Seung Kyu Min

The effect of nonlinear friction forces in quantum mechanics is studied via dissipative Madelung hydrodynamics. A new thermo-quantum diffusion equation is derived, which is solved for the particular case of quantum Brownian motion with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Roumen Tsekov

We use general concepts of statistical mechanics to compute the quantum frictional force on an atom moving at constant velocity above a planar surface. We derive the zero-temperature frictional force using a non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 F. Intravaia , R. O. Behunin , D. A. R. Dalvit

Quantum fluctuations can induce a friction on a neutral but polarizable particle and cause it to radiate energy even if the particle is moving in free space filled with blackbody radiation, and is not in contact with or close to any surface…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-22 Xin Guo , Kimball A. Milton , Gerard Kennedy , William P. McNulty , Nima Pourtolami , Yang Li

We address the connection between negative electronic friction and non-Markovian effects in the nonadiabatic vibrational dynamics of molecules interacting with metal surfaces under nonequilibrium conditions. We show that a generic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Riley J. Preston , Samuel L. Rudge , Daniel S. Kosov , Michael Thoss

We discuss the dynamics of a classical spinless quantum particle carrying electric charge and constrained to move on a non singular static surface in ordinary three dimensional space in the presence of arbitrary configurations of time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 B. Jensen , R. Dandoloff

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…

Electronic friction and Langevin dynamics is a popular mixed quantum-classical method for simulating the nonadiabatic dynamics of molecules interacting with metal surfaces, as it can be computationally more efficient than fully quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Martin Mäck , Samuel L. Rudge , Michael Thoss

We present a novel mixed quantum-classical approach to the coupled electron-nuclear dynamics based on the exact factorization of the electron-nuclear wave function, recently proposed in [A. Abedi, N. T. Maitra, and E. K. U. Gross, Phys.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ali Abedi , Federica Agostini , E. K. U. Gross

A novel treatment of non-adiabatic couplings is proposed. The derivation starts from the long-known, but not well-known, fact that the wave function of the complete system of elctrons and nuclei can be written, without approximation, as a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikitas I. Gidopoulos , E. K. U. Gross

We introduce a theory that exposes the fundamental and previously overlooked connection between the correlation among electrons and the degree of quantum coherence of electronic states in matter. For arbitrary states, the effects only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Arnab Kar , Liping Chen , Ignacio Franco

Molecular adsorbates on metal surfaces exchange energy with substrate phonons and low-lying electron-hole pair excitations. In the limit of weak coupling, electron-hole pair excitations can be seen as exerting frictional forces on…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-28 Reinhard J. Maurer , Mikhail Askerka , Victor S. Batista , John C. Tully

In this work the explicit solution of the electronic plasma diffusion with radiation reaction force, under the action of an exponential decay external electric field is given. The electron dynamics is described by a classical generalized…

Entropic Dynamics (ED) is a framework in which Quantum Mechanics is derived as an application of entropic methods of inference. In ED the dynamics of the probability distribution is driven by entropy subject to constraints that are codified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-27 Ariel Caticha