2022/12/07 by Szabolcs Góger, Almaz Khabibrakhmanov, Góger, Szabolcs +7 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph) #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Mechanical and Optical Resonators
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2212.07305
openalex publication_date 2022/12/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The quantum Drude oscillator (QDO) is an efficient yet accurate coarse-grained approach that has been widely used to model electronic and optical response properties of atoms and molecules, as well as polarization and dispersion interactions between them. Three effective parameters (frequency, mass, charge) fully characterize the QDO Hamiltonian and are adjusted to reproduce response properties. However, the soaring success of coupled QDOs for many-atom systems remains fundamentally unexplained and the optimal mapping between atoms/molecules and oscillators has not been established. Here, we present an optimized parametrization (OQDO) where the parameters are fixed by using only dipolar properties. For the periodic table of elements as well as small molecules, our OQDO model accurately reproduces atomic (spatial) polarization potentials and multipolar dispersion coefficients, elucidating the high promise of the presented model in the development of next-generation quantum-mechanical force fields for (bio)molecular simulations.