Quantum theory of concerted electronic and nuclear fluxes associated with adiabatic intramolecular processes

T Bredtmann, DJ Diestler, SD Li, J Manz… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
An elementary molecular process can be characterized by the flow of particles (ie, electrons
and nuclei) that compose the system. The flow, in turn, is quantitatively described by the flux …

Multidirectional angular electronic flux during adiabatic attosecond charge migration in excited benzene

G Hermann, CM Liu, J Manz, B Paulus… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Recently, adiabatic attosecond charge migration (AACM) has been monitored and simulated
for the first time, with application to the oriented iodoacetylene cation where AACM starts …

Dynamical electron mechanism of double proton transfer in formic acid dimer

M Okuyama, K Takatsuka - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We study the dynamical electron mechanism of “double proton transfer” in formic acid dimer,
which is a prototype of many double proton transfers in chemical and biological systems …

Electronic currents and Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics

S Patchkovskii - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Born-Oppenheimer variable separation is the mainstay of studies of chemical reactivity and
dynamics. A long-standing problem of this ansatz is the absence of electronic currents in a …

Early-Stage Dynamics in Coupled Proton–Electron Transfer from the π–π* State of Phenol to Solvent Ammonia Clusters: A Nonadiabatic Electron Dynamics Study

K Nagashima, K Takatsuka - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2012 - ACS Publications
We reexmine the mechanism and interpretation of photochemical reaction of phenol
molecule with small ammonia clusters, which is schematically written as Ph* OH···(NH3) n→ …

Beyond the Born–Oppenheimer approximation: A treatment of electronic flux density in electronically adiabatic molecular processes

DJ Diestler - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2013 - ACS Publications
Intuition suggests that a molecular system in the electronic ground state Φ0 should exhibit
an electronic flux density (EFD) in response to the motion of its nuclei. If that state is …

Vibrating H2+(2Σg+, JM = 00) Ion as a Pulsating Quantum Bubble in the Laboratory Frame

J Manz, JF Perez-Torres, Y Yang - The Journal of Physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We present quantum dynamics simulations of the concerted nuclear and electronic densities
and flux densities of the vibrating H2+ ion with quantum numbers 2Σg+, JM= 00 …

Coupled-channels quantum theory of electronic flux density in electronically adiabatic processes: Application to the hydrogen molecule ion

DJ Diestler, A Kenfack, J Manz… - The Journal of Physical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
This article presents the results of the first quantum simulations of the electronic flux density
(je) by the “coupled-channels”(CC) theory, the fundamentals of which are presented in the …

Concerted Electronic and Nuclear Fluxes During Coherent Tunnelling in Asymmetric Double-Well Potentials

T Bredtmann, J Manz, JM Zhao - The Journal of Physical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The quantum theory of concerted electronic and nuclear fluxes (CENFs) during coherent
periodic tunnelling from reactants (R) to products (P) and back to R in molecules with …

Strong Nuclear Ring Currents and Magnetic Fields in Pseudorotating OsH4 Molecules Induced by Circularly Polarized Laser Pulses

I Barth, C Bressler, S Koseki… - Chemistry–An Asian …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We design a circularly polarized laser pulse in the infrared frequency and femtosecond time
domains, for excitation of the OsH4 molecule in its first excited pseudorotational state of the …