2006/03/15 by A P Horsfield, A. P. Horsfield, D. R. Bowler +9 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Molecular Physics #Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0034-4885/69/4/r05
published as Reports on Progress in Physics 69 1195-1234 (2006) · LaTeX with IoP style files, 43 pages, 3 figures
openalex publication_date 2006/03/15 · arxiv created 2006/03/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this review we consider those processes in condensed matter that involve the irreversible flow of energy between electrons and nuclei that follows from a system being taken out of equilibrium. We survey some of the more important experimental phenomena associated with these processes, followed by a number of theoretical techniques for studying them. The techniques considered are those that can be applied to systems containing many non-equivalent atoms. They include both perturbative approaches (Fermi's Golden Rule, and non-equilibrium Green's functions) and molecular dynamics based (the Ehrenfest approximation, surface hopping, semi-classical gaussian wavefunction methods and correlated electron-ion dynamics). These methods are described and characterised, with indications of their relative merits.