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Intermittent polaron dynamics: Born-Oppenheimer out of equilibrium

2004/10/27 by D. Mozyrsky, Dmitry Mozyrsky, Mozyrsky, D. +6
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.mtrl-sci

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0410721

arxiv created 2004/10/27 · openalex publication_date 2004/10/27 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We consider the non-equilibrium dynamics of a molecular level interacting with local phonon modes in the case of a strong polaronic shift which prevents a perturbative treatment of the problem. Instead, we find that in an adiabatic regime when the electronic states react faster than the phonon modes it is possible to provide a fully non-perturbative treatment of the phonon dynamics including random noise and dissipation. The result shows intermittent switching between bistable states of the oscillator with an effective random telegraph noise.

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