Atomic And Molecular Clusters

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Time-resolved Spectroscopy of Interparticle Coulombic Decay Processes (1904.05861v1)

Elke Fasshauer, Lars Bojer Madsen

2019-04-11

Interparticle Coulombic Decay (ICD) processes are electronic decay processes initiated by inner valence shell excitation or ionization of weakly interacting systems including solvents, biomolecules and quantum dots in semiconductors. We report theory for time-resolved spectator resonant ICD processes. Following excitation by a short XUV pulse, the spectrum of the resonant ICD electron is modelled. The decay process is quenched at different time delays by a strong infrared laser pulse. The quenching initiates a regular ICD process, whose ICD electron signal can be measured without interference effects. The typical lifetimes of ICD processes allow for the observation of oscillations of the time- and energy-differential ionization probability. We propose to utilize this oscillation to measure lifetimes of electronic decay processes.

Quantum entanglement between two magnon modes via Kerr nonlinearity (1904.04167v1)

Zhedong Zhang, Marlan O. Scully, Girish S. Agarwal

2019-04-08

We propose a scheme to entangle two magnon modes via Kerr nonlinear effect when driving the systems far-from-equilibrium. We consider two macroscopic yttrium iron garnets (YIGs) interacting with a single-mode microcavity through the magnetic dipole coupling. The Kittel mode describing the collective excitations of large number of spins are excited through driving cavity with a strong microwave field. We demonstrate how the Kerr nonlineraity creates the entangled quantum states between the two macroscopic ferromagnetic samples, when the microcavity is strongly driven by a blue-detuned microwave field. Such quantum entanglement survives at the steady state. Our work offers new insights and guidance to designate the experiments for observing the entanglement in massive ferromagnetic materials. It can also find broad applications in macroscopic quantum effects and magnetic spintronics.

Few-body quantum method in a -dimensional space (1901.02667v2)

E. Garrido, A. S. Jensen, R. Álvarez-Rodríguez

2019-01-09

In this work we investigate the continuous confinement of quantum systems from three to two dimensions. Two different methods will be used and related. In the first one the confinement is achieved by putting the system under the effect of an external field. This method is conceptually simple, although, due to the presence of the external field, its numerical implementation can become rather cumbersome, especially when the system is highly confined. In the second method the external field is not used, and it simply considers the spatial dimension as a parameter that changes continuously between the ordinary integer values. In this way the numerical effort is absorbed in a modified strength of the centrifugal barrier. Then the technique required to obtain the wave function of the confined system is precisely the same as needed in ordinary three dimensional calculations without any confinement potential. The case of a two-body system squeezed from three to two dimensions is considered, and used to provide a translation between all the quantities in the two methods. Finally we point out perspectives for applications on more particles, different spatial dimensions, and other confinement potentials.

A tight-binding model for the excitonic band structure of a one-dimensional molecular chain: UV-Vis spectra, Zak phase and topological properties (1904.01881v1)

Wei Wu, Jin Zhang

2019-04-03

Recently organic optics becomes a hot topic due to the rapid development of organic light-emitting diodes, organic solar cells, and organic photon detectors. The optical spectra of the molecular semiconductors are difficult to solve an model from first-principles because (i) the very large number of atoms in a unit cell and (ii) the accurate theoretical excited state is still under development. Here we present a tight-binding model of an exciton band structure in a molecular chain. We take into account the intra-molecule and charge-transfer excitation within a molecular dimer in a unit cell, then we apply the tight-binding model by including the coupling between two types of excitations. We not only found that our calculations can explain a body of UV-Vis optical spectra of transition-metal phthalocyanines, but also a one-dimensional excitonic topological band structure if we fine-tune the couplings in a dimerized molecular chain. We have found a large space to obtain the topological Zak phase in the parameter space, in which there is a simple linear relationship between the hopping integrals between cells and within cell.

Stretched or noded orbital densities and self-interaction correction in density functional theory (1903.00611v2)

Chandra Shahi, Puskar Bhattarai, Kamal Wagle, Biswajit Santra, Sebastian Schwalbe, Torsten Hahn, Jens Kortus, Koblar A. Jackson, Juan E. Peralta, Kai Trepte, Susi Lehtola, Niraj K. Nepal, Hemanadhan Myneni, Bimal Neupane, Santosh Adhikari, Adrienn Ruzsinszky, Yoh Yamamoto, Tunna Baruah, Rajendra R. Zope, John P. Perdew

2019-03-02

Semi-local approximations to the density functional for the exchange-correlation energy of a many-electron system necessarily fail for lobed one-electron densities, including not only the familiar stretched densities but also the less familiar but closely-related noded ones. The Perdew-Zunger (PZ) self-interaction correction (SIC) to a semi-local approximation makes that approximation exact for all one-electron ground- or excited-state densities and accurate for stretched bonds. When the minimization of the PZ total energy is made over real localized orbitals, the orbital densities can be noded, leading to energy errors in many-electron systems. Minimization over complex localized orbitals yields nodeless orbital densities, which reduce but typically do not eliminate the SIC errors of atomization energies. Other errors of PZ SIC remain, attributable to the loss of the exact constraints and appropriate norms that the semi-local approximations satisfy, and suggesting the need for a generalized SIC. These conclusions are supported by calculations for one-electron densities, and for many-electron molecules. While PZ SIC raises and improves the energy barriers of standard generalized gradient approximations (GGA's) and meta-GGA's, it reduces and often worsens the atomization energies of molecules. Thus PZ SIC raises the energy more as the nodality of the valence localized orbitals increases from atoms to molecules to transition states. PZ SIC is applied here in particular to the SCAN meta-GGA, for which the correlation part is already self-interaction-free. That property makes SCAN a natural first candidate for a generalized SIC.

Universal Three-Body Parameter of Heavy-Heavy-Light systems with negative intraspecies scattering length (1903.09565v1)

Caiyun Zhao, Huili Han, Mengshan Wu, Tingyun Shi

2019-03-22

The Three-Body Parameter(3BP) is crucial to understanding Efimov physics, and a universal 3BP has been shown in experiments and theory in ultracold homonuclear gases. The 3BP of heteronuclear systems was predicted to possess much richer properties than the homonuclear counterparts for the large parameter space. In this work, we investigate the universal properties of for the Heavy-Heavy-Light(HHL) system with negative intraspecies scattering length . We find that follows a universal behavior determined by the van der Waals(vdW) interaction and the mass ratio. An analytic formula of is given as a function of , which allows an intuitive understanding of how does depend on the mass ratio and the vdW length . In a special case, when the two heavy atoms are in resonance, is approximately a constant: .

The CO2-broadened H2O continuum in the 100-1500 cm-1 region. Measurements, predictions and empirical model (1903.08972v1)

Ha Tran, Martin Turbet, Simon Hanoufa, Xavier Landsheere, Pascale Chelin, Qiancheng Ma, Jean-Michel Hartmann

2019-03-21

Transmission spectra of HO+CO mixtures have been recorded, at 296, 325 and 366 K, for various pressures and mixture compositions using two experimental setups. Their analysis enables to retrieve values of the 'continuum' absorption by the CO-broadened HO line wings between 100 and 1500 cm. The results are in good agreement with those, around 1300 cm, of the single previous experimental study available. Comparisons are also made with direct predictions based on line-shape correction factors calculated, almost thirty years ago, using a quasistatic approach and an input HO-CO intermolecular potential. They show that this model quite nicely predicts, with slightly overestimated values, the continuum over a spectral range where it varies by more than three orders of magnitude. An empirical correction is proposed, based on the experimental data, which should be useful for radiative transfer and climate studies in CO rich planetary atmospheres.

Embedding nuclear physics inside the unitary window (1903.08900v1)

Mario Gattobigio, Alejandro Kievsky, Michele Viviani

2019-03-21

The large values of the singlet and triplet scattering lengths locate the two-nucleon system close to the unitary limit, the limit in which these two values diverge. As a consequence, the system shows a continuous scale invariance which strongly constrains the values of the observables, a well-known fact already noticed a long time ago. The three-nucleon system shows a discrete scale invariance that can be observed by correlations of the triton binding energy with other observables as the doublet nucleon-deuteron scattering length or the alpha-particle binding energy. The low-energy dynamics of these systems is universal; it does not depend on the details of the particular way in which the nucleons interact. Instead, it depends on a few control parameters, the large values of the scattering lengths and the triton binding energy. Using a potential model with variable strength set to give values to the control parameters, we study the spectrum of nuclei in the region between the unitary limit and their physical values. In particular, we analyze how the binding energies emerge from the unitary limit forming the observed levels.

Single-atom control of the optoelectronic response in sub-nanometric cavities (1903.08443v1)

Pablo Garcia-Gonzalez, Alejandro Varas, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, Angel Rubio

2019-03-20

By means of ab-initio time dependent density functional theory calculations carried out on an prototypical hybrid plasmonic device (two metallic nanoparticles bridged by a one-atom junction), we demonstrate the strong interplay between photoinduced excitation of localized surface plasmons and electron transport through the single atom. Such an interplay is remarkably sensitive to the atomic orbitals of the junction. Therefore, we show the possibility of a twofold tuning (plasmonic response and photoinduced current across the juntion) just by changing a single atom in the device.

Accurate Electron Affinities and Orbital Energies of Anions from a Non-Empirically Tuned Range-Separated Density Functional Theory Approach (1803.01218v2)

Lindsey N. Anderson, M. Belén Oviedo, Bryan M. Wong

2018-03-03

The treatment of atomic anions with Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) has long been controversial since the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy, , is often calculated to be positive with most approximate density functionals. We assess the accuracy of orbital energies and electron affinities for all three rows of elements in the periodic table (H-Ar) using a variety of theoretical approaches and customized basis sets. Among all of the theoretical methods studied here, we find that a non-empirically tuned range-separated approach (constructed to satisfy DFT-Koopmans' theorem for the anionic electron system) provides the best accuracy for a variety of basis sets - even for small basis sets where most functionals typically fail. Previous approaches to solve this conundrum of positive values have utilized non-self-consistent methods; however electronic properties, such as electronic couplings/gradients (which require a self-consistent potential and energy), become ill-defined with these approaches. In contrast, the non-empirically tuned range-separated procedure used here yields well-defined electronic couplings/gradients and correct values since both the potential and resulting electronic energy are computed self-consistently. Orbital energies and electron affinities are further analyzed in the context of the electronic energy as a function of electronic number (including fractional numbers of electrons) to provide a stringent assessment of self-interaction errors for these complex anion systems.

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