Polaron formation: Ehrenfest dynamics vs. exact results

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Li, Guangqi ^a   Movaghar, Bijan ^a   Nitzan, Abraham ^a,b   Ratner, Mark A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE POTENTIAL; DENSITY MATRIX; EHRENFEST; EHRENFEST DYNAMICS; ELECTRON TRANSFER; ELECTRON-VIBRATION COUPLINGS; ELECTRONIC SUBSYSTEMS; EXACT RESULTS; MARKOVIAN; NUCLEAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MOTIONS; POLARON FORMATION; QUANTUM CALCULATION; SEMICLASSICAL APPROACHES; THERMAL RELAXATION; TIGHT BINDING MODEL; TIME-SCALES; ZERO TEMPERATURES;

DYNAMICS; LIOUVILLE EQUATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; POLARONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RELAXATION OSCILLATORS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84873589568     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4776230     Document Type: Article

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