On the generation of electronic ring currents under vibronic coupling effects

• Verfasst von: Nandipati, Krishna Reddy [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Vendrell, Oriol [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: On the generation of electronic ring currents under vibronic coupling effects
• Verf.angabe: Krishna Reddy Nandipati, and Oriol Vendrell
• E-Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: 14 December 2020
• Umfang: 9 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 18.01.2021
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: The journal of chemical physics
• Ort Quelle: Melville, NY : American Institute of Physics, 1933
• Jahr Quelle: 2020
• Band/Heft Quelle: 153(2020,22) Artikel-Nummer 224308, 9 Seiten
• ISSN Quelle: 1089-7690
• DOI: doi:10.1063/5.0031389
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1744849579

Abstract

We study the generation of electronic ring currents in the presence of nonadiabatic coupling using circularly polarized light. For this, we introduce a solvable model consisting of an electron and a nucleus rotating around a common center and subject to their mutual Coulomb interaction. The simplicity of the model brings to the forefront the non-trivial properties of electronic ring currents in the presence of coupling to the nuclear coordinates and enables the characterization of various limiting situations transparently. Employing this model, we show that vibronic coupling effects play a crucial role even when a single E degenerate eigenstate of the system supports the current. The maximum current of a degenerate eigenstate depends on the strength of the nonadiabatic interactions. In the limit of large nuclear to electronic masses, in which the Born-Oppenheimer approximation becomes exact, constant ring currents and time-averaged oscillatory currents necessarily vanish.