117 research outputs found
Electronic decoherence following photoionization: full quantum-dynamical treatment of the influence of nuclear motion
Photoionization using attosecond pulses can lead to the formation of coherent
superpositions of the electronic states of the parent ion. However, ultrafast
electron ejection triggers not only electronic but also nuclear
dynamics---leading to electronic decoherence, which is typically neglected on
time scales up to tens of femtoseconds. We propose a full quantum-dynamical
treatment of nuclear motion in an adiabatic framework, where nuclear
wavepackets move on adiabatic potential energy surfaces expanded up to second
order at the Franck-Condon point. We show that electronic decoherence is caused
by the interplay of a large number of nuclear degrees of freedom and by the
relative topology of the potential energy surfaces. Application to
, paraxylene, and phenylalanine shows that an initially coherent
state evolves to an electronically mixed state within just a few femtoseconds.
In these examples the fast vibrations involving hydrogen atoms do not affect
electronic coherence at short times. Conversely, vibrational modes involving
the whole molecular skeleton, which are slow in the ground electronic state,
quickly destroy it upon photoionization.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figure
Sub-picosecond energy transfer from a highly intense THz pulse to water: a computational study based on the TIP4P/2005 model
The dynamics of ultrafast energy transfer to water clusters and to bulk water
by a highly intense, sub-cycle THz pulse of duration ~150~fs is
investigated in the context of force-field molecular dynamics simulations. We
focus our attention on the mechanisms by which rotational and translational
degrees of freedom of the water monomers gain energy from these sub-cycle
pulses with an electric field amplitude of up to about 0.6~V/{\AA}. It has been
recently shown that pulses with these characteristics can be generated in the
laboratory [PRL 112, 213901 (2014)]. Through their permanent dipole moment,
water molecules are acted upon by the electric field and forced off their
preferred hydrogen-bond network conformation. This immediately sets them in
motion with respect to one another as energy quickly transfers to their
relative center of mass displacements. We find that, in the bulk, the operation
of these mechanisms is strongly dependent on the initial temperature and
density of the system. In low density systems, the equilibration between
rotational and translational modes is slow due to the lack of collisions
between monomers. As the initial density of the system approaches 1~g/cm,
equilibration between rotational and translational modes after the pulse
becomes more efficient. In turn, low temperatures hinder the direct energy
transfer from the pulse to rotational motion owing to the resulting stiffness
of the hydrogen bond network. For small clusters of just a few water molecules
we find that fragmentation due to the interaction with the pulse is faster than
equilibration between rotations and translations, meaning that the latter
remain colder than the former after the pulse
Full dimensional (15D) quantum-dynamical simulation of the protonated water-dimer II: infrared spectrum and vibrational dynamics
The infrared absorption spectrum of the protonated water dimer (H5O2+) is
simulated in full dimensionality (15D) in the spectral range 0-4000 cm-1. The
calculations are performed using the Multiconfiguration Time-Dependent Hartree
(MCTDH) method for propagation of wavepackets. All the fundamentals and several
overtones of the vibrational motion are computed. The spectrum of H5O2+ is
shaped to a large extent by couplings of the proton-transfer motion to large
amplitude fluxional motions of the water molecules, water bending and
water-water stretch motions. These couplings are identified and discussed, and
the corresponding spectral lines assigned. The large couplings featured by
H5O2+ do not hinder, however, to describe the coupled vibrational motion by
well defined simple types of vibration (stretching, bending, etc.) based on
well defined modes of vibration, in terms of which the spectral lines are
assigned. Comparison of our results to recent experiments and calculations on
the system is given. The reported MCTDH IR-spectrum is in very good agreement
to the recently measured spectrum by Hammer et al. [JCP, 122, 244301, (2005)].Comment: 30 pages, 6 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Phy
Multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree impurity solver for nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory
Nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) solves correlated lattice
models by obtaining their local correlation functions from an effective model
consisting of a single impurity in a self-consistently determined bath. The
recently developed mapping of this impurity problem from the Keldysh time
contour onto a time-dependent single-impurity Anderson model (SIAM) [C. Gramsch
et al., Phys. Rev. B 88, 235106 (2013)] allows one to use wave function-based
methods in the context of nonequilibrium DMFT. Within this mapping, long times
in the DMFT simulation become accessible by an increasing number of bath
orbitals, which requires efficient representations of the time-dependent SIAM
wave function. These can be achieved by the multiconfiguration time-dependent
Hartree (MCTDH) method and its multi-layer extensions. We find that MCTDH
outperforms exact diagonalization for large baths in which the latter approach
is still within reach and allows for the calculation of SIAMs beyond the system
size accessible by exact diagonalization. Moreover, we illustrate the
computation of the self-consistent two-time impurity Green's function within
the MCTDH second quantization representation.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figure
Towards attochemistry: Control of nuclear motion through conical intersections and electronic coherences
The effect of nuclear dynamics and conical intersections on electronic
coherences is investigated employing a two-state, two-mode linear vibronic
coupling model. Exact quantum dynamical calculations are performed using the
multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree method (MCTDH). It is found that the
presence of a non-adiabatic coupling close to the Franck-Condon point can
preserve electronic coherence to some extent. Additionally, the possibility of
steering the nuclear wavepackets by imprinting a relative phase between the
electronic states during the photoionization process is discussed. It is found
that the steering of nuclear wavepackets is possible given that a coherent
electronic wavepacket embodying the phase difference passes through a conical
intersection. A conical intersection close to the Franck-Condon point is thus a
necessary prerequisite for control, providing a clear path towards
attochemistry.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figure
Mixed Quantum-Classical Dynamics for Near Term Quantum Computers
Mixed quantum-classical dynamics is a set of methods often used to understand
systems too complex to treat fully quantum mechanically. Many techniques exist
for full quantum mechanical evolution on quantum computers, but mixed
quantum-classical dynamics are less explored. We present a modular algorithm
for general mixed quantum-classical dynamics where the quantum subsystem is
coupled with the classical subsystem. We test it on a modified Shin-Metiu model
in the first quantization through Ehrenfest propagation. We find that the
Time-Dependent Variational Time Propagation algorithm performs well for
short-time evolutions and retains qualitative results for longer-time
evolutions.Comment: 13 pages, 19 figures, revision after first referee roun
Collective rovibronic dynamics of a diatomic gas coupled by cavity
We consider an ensemble of homonuclear diatomic molecules coupled to the two
polarization directions of a Fabry-P\'erot cavity via fully quantum
simulations. Accompanied by analytical results, we identify a coupling
mechanism mediated simultaneously by the two perpendicular polarizations, and
inducing polaritonic relaxation towards molecular rotations. This mechanism is
related to the concept of light-induced conical intersections (LICI). However,
unlike LICIs, these non-adiabatic pathways are of collective nature, since they
depend on the \emph{relative} intermolecular orientation of all electronic
transition dipoles in the polarization plane. Notably, this rotational
mechanism directly couples the bright upper and lower polaritonic states, and
it stays in direct competition with the collective relaxation towards
dark-states. Our simulations indicate that the molecular rotational dynamics in
gas-phase cavity-coupled systems can serve as a novel probe for non-radiative
polaritonic decay towards the dark-states manifold.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures and supporting materia
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