Published March 18, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Taming the escape dynamics of nonadiabatic time-periodically driven quantum dissipative system within the frame of Wigner formalism

  • 1. Department of Chemistry, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah 711103 (India)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Katwa College, Katwa, Burdwan 713130 (India)

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Highlights: • Nonadiabatic dynamics of quantum particle under the impact of high-frequency force. • Formulation of time-independent dynamics via Floquet and Kapitza schemes. • Manipulation of external force parameters allows us to control the escape rate. • Increase of (amplitudes/frequency) causes the system to decay faster, in general. • Crossover temperature increases in the presence of the field. - Abstract: Escape under the action of the external modulation constitutes a nontrivial generalization of an conventional Kramers rate because the system is away from thermal equilibrium. A derivation of this result from the point of view of Langevin dynamics in the frame of Floquet theorem in conjunction with the Kapitza–Landau time window (that leads to an attractive description of the time-dependent quantum dynamics in terms of time-independent one) has been provided. The quantum escape rate in the intermediate-to-high and very-high damping regime so obtained analytically using the phase space formalism associated with the Wigner distribution and path-integral formalism bears a quantum correction that depends strongly on the barrier height. It is shown that an increase of (amplitude/frequency) ratio causes the system to decay faster, in general. The crossover temperature between tunneling and thermal activation increases in the presence of field so that quantum effects in the escape are relevant at higher temperatures

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphys.2014.01.008

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DOI
10.1016/j.chemphys.2014.01.008;
PII
S0301-0104(14)00018-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Chemical Physics
Journal Volume
431-432
Journal Page Range
p. 26-38
ISSN
0301-0104
CODEN
CMPHC2

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