Quantum linear response theory

The derivation of the quantum analog of the theory presented above follows essentially the same line, except that care must be taken with the operator algebra involved. 

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Quantum linear response theory 11.2.1 Static quantum response The analogs ofEqs (11.4) are... 

The formation and transport properties of a large polaron in DNA are discussed in detail by Conwell in a separate chapter of this volume. Further information about the competition of quantum charge delocalization and their localization due to solvation forces can be found in Sect. 10.1. In Sect. 10.1 we also compare a theoretical description of localization/delocalization processes with an approach used to study large polaron formation. Here we focus on the theoretical framework appropriate for analysis of the influence of solvent polarization on charge transport. A convenient method to treat this effect is based on the combination of a tight-binding model for electronic motion and linear response theory for polarization of the water surroundings. To be more specific, let us consider a sequence... 

The quantum mechanical forms of the correlation function expressions for transport coefficients are well known and may be derived by invoking linear response theory [64] or the Mori-Zwanzig projection operator formalism [66,67], However, we would like to evaluate transport properties for quantum-classical systems. We thus take the quantum mechanical expression for a transport coefficient as a starting point and then consider a limit where the dynamics is approximated by quantum-classical dynamics [68-70], The advantage of this approach is that the full quantum equilibrium structure can be retained. 

The rate coefficient of a reactive process is a transport coefficient of interest in chemical physics. It has been shown from linear response theory that this coefficient can be obtained from the reactive flux correlation function of the system of interest. This quantity has been computed extensively in the literature for systems such as proton and electron transfer in solvents as well as clusters [29,32,33,56,71-76], where the use of the QCL formalism has allowed one to consider quantum phenomena such as the kinetic isotope effect in proton transfer [31], Here, we will consider the problem of formulating an expression for a reactive rate coefficient in the framework of the QCL theory. Results from a model calculation will be presented including a comparison to the approximate methods described in Sec. 4. 

M. Nooijen, J.G. Snijders, Int. J. Quantum Chem. 48 (1993) 15. For ionization potentials, equation-of-motion coupled-cluster, coupled-cluster linear response theory,... 

This part introduces variational principles relevant to the quantum mechanics of bound stationary states. Chapter 4 covers well-known variational theory that underlies modern computational methodology for electronic states of atoms and molecules. Extension to condensed matter is deferred until Part III, since continuum theory is part of the formal basis of the multiple scattering theory that has been developed for applications in this subfield. Chapter 5 develops the variational theory that underlies independent-electron models, now widely used to transcend the practical limitations of direct variational methods for large systems. This is extended in Chapter 6 to time-dependent variational theory in the context of independent-electron models, including linear-response theory and its relationship to excitation energies. 

Here, G(t) is the quantum autocorrelation function (ACF) of the dipole moment operator responsible for the dipolar absorption transition, whereas oo is the angular frequency and t is the time. Equation (1) has been used, for example, by Bratos [45] and Robertson and Yarwood [46] in their semiclassical studies of H-bonded species within the linear response theory. 

The basic quantum theories [47-50], dealing with the IR line shape of the vX-h °f weak H-bonded species working within the linear response theory have been performed with the aid of Eq. (4) in place of (1) used by Bratos [45] and Robertson and Yarwood [46]. 

The next section (Sect. 2) is devoted to a lengthy discussion of the molecular hypothesis from the point of view of quantum field theory, and this provides the basis for the subsequent discussion of optical activity. Having used linear response theory to establish the equations for optical activity (Sect. 3), we pause to discuss the properties of the wavefunctions of optically active isomers in relation to the space inversion operator (Sect. 4), before indicating how the general optical activity equations can be related to the usual Rosenfeld equation for the optical rotation in a chiral molecule. Finally (Sect. 5), there are critical remarks about what can currently be said in the microscopic quantum-mechanical theory of optical activity based on some approximate models of the field theory. 

Here, we provide the theoretical basis for incorporating the PE potential in quantum mechanical response theory, including the derivation of the contributions to the linear, quadratic, and cubic response functions. The derivations follow closely the formulation of linear and quadratic response theory within DFT by Salek et al. [17] and cubic response within DFT by Jansik et al. [18] Furthermore, the derived equations show some similarities to other response-based environmental methods, for example, the polarizable continuum model [19, 20] (PCM) or the spherical cavity dielectric... 

These results mean that, once the GME coinciding with the CTRW has been built up, we cannot look at it as a fundamental law of nature. If this GME were the expression of a law of nature, it would be possible to use it to study the response to external perturbations. The linear response theory is based on this fundamental assumption and its impressive success is an indirect confirmation that ordinary quantum and statistical mechanics are indeed a fair representation of the laws of nature. But, as proved by the authors of Ref. 104, this is no longer true in the non-Poisson case discussed in this review. 

We begin our discussion with a survey of the quantum dynamics and linear response theory expressions for quantum transport coefficients. Since we wish to make a link to a partial classical description, the use of Wigner transforms... 

We may easily carry out a linear response theory derivation of transport properties based on the quantum-classical Liouville equation that parallels the... 

Here we apply the LAND-map approach to compute of the time dependent average population difference, A t) = az t)), between the spin states of a spin-boson model. Here az = [ 1)(1 — 2)(2 ]. Within the limits of linear response theory, this model describes the dissipative dynamics of a two level system coupled to an environment [59,63-65]. The environment is represented by an infinite set of harmonic oscillators, linearly coupled to the quantum subsystem. The characteristics of the system-bath coupling are completely described by the spectral density J(w). In the following, we shall restrict ourselves to the case of an Ohmic spectral density... 

Fu Y, Dudley S (1993) Quantum inductance within linear response theory. Phys Rev Lett 70(l) 65-68... 

Debashis Mukherjee is a Professor of Physical Chemistry and the Director of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta, India. He has been one of the earliest developers of a class of multi-reference coupled cluster theories and also of the coupled cluster based linear response theory. Other contributions by him are in the resolution of the size-extensivity problem for multi-reference theories using an incomplete model space and in the size-extensive intermediate Hamiltonian formalism. His research interests focus on the development and applications of non-relativistic and relativistic theories of many-body molecular electronic structure and theoretical spectroscopy, quantum many-body dynamics and statistical held theory of many-body systems. He is a member of the International Academy of the Quantum Molecular Science, a Fellow of the Third World Academy of Science, the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences. He is the recipient of the Shantiswarup Bhatnagar Prize of the Council of Scientihc and Industrial Research of the Government of India. 

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