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The ion phase-space dynamics in the Coulomb explosion of very large ($\sim 10^6 - 10^7$ atoms) deuterium clusters can be tailored using two consecutive laser pulses with different intensities and an appropriate time delay. For suitable sets…
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Model calculations that include the effects of irreversible, environmental couplings on top of a coupled-channels dynamical description of the collision of two complex nuclei are presented. The Liouville-von Neumann equation for the…
Recently, systems with strong coupling between electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom attract a great attention. In this work, we consider the transient dynamics of the system consisting of strongly coupled vibron and exciton driven…
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We explore the scattering dynamics of classical Coulomb-interacting clusters of ions confined to a helical geometry. Ion clusters of equally charged particles constrained to a helix can form many-body bound states, i.e. they exhibit stable…
Recent results connected to nuclear collision dynamics, from low up to relativistic energies, are reviewed. Heavy ion reactions offer the unique opportunity to probe the complex nuclear many-body dynamics and to explore, in laboratory…
The sensitive dependence of the cluster ion dissociation behavior on the elastic response of the target metal is experimentally demonstrated. Five types of metal are bombarded with cluster ions consisting of thousands of argon atoms at an…
The article provides an overview of the behavior and detection of electric and magnetic dipole moments in free atomic and molecular nanoclusters.
We describe the collisional interaction between two different atoms that are trapped in a harmonic potential. The atoms are exposed to a magnetic field, which is modulated in the vicinity of an s-wave Feshbach resonance, and we study the…
In this study, molecular dynamics simulations were conducted to investigate the relaxation of the internal energy in nano-sized particles and its impact on the nucleation of atomic clusters. Quantum-mechanical potentials were utilized to…
One-electron energy levels are studied for a configuration of two positive charges inside an octahedral cage, the vertices of the cage being occupied by atoms with a partially filled shell. Although ground states correspond to large…
This paper presents a theoretical investigation of the cross sections for dissociative electron attachment and dissociative excitation processes in vibrationally excited CH radicals induced by electron impact. Resonant electron-CH…
The projection-based quantum embedding method is applied to electronically excited states of valence, Rydberg, and charge-transfer character, valence- and core-ionized states, as well as bound and temporary radical anions. We embed…
Recently it was shown that the quantum behavior of an intense cavity field can be revealed by measuring the steady atomic correlations between two ideal atoms, which interact with the same leaking cavity mode. Considering a weak atom-field…
We developed a general theoretical approach and a user-ready computer code that permit to study the dynamics of collisional energy transfer and ro-vibrational energy exchange in complex molecule-molecule collisions. The method is a mixture…
We investigate reaction mechanisms occurring in heavy ion collisions at low energy (around 20 MeV/u). In particular, we focus on the competition between fusion and break-up processes (Deep-Inelastic and fragmentation) in semi-peripheral…
We show that individual vibrational modes in single-molecule junctions with asymmetric molecule-lead coupling can be selectively excited by applying an external bias voltage. Thereby, a non-statistical distribution of vibrational energy can…
Nuclei undergo a phase transition in nuclear reactions according to a caloric curve determined by the amount of entropy. Here, the generation of entropy is studied in relation to the size of the nuclear system.