{"quality_controlled":"1","title":"Intermolecular forces and correlations mediated by a phonon bath","status":"public","related_material":{"record":[{"relation":"dissertation_contains","id":"8958","status":"public"}]},"oa_version":"Preprint","oa":1,"date_created":"2020-09-30T10:33:17Z","user_id":"c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1","publisher":"AIP Publishing","date_published":"2020-04-27T00:00:00Z","publication_status":"published","issue":"16","department":[{"_id":"MiLe"},{"_id":"RoSe"}],"abstract":[{"text":"Inspired by the possibility to experimentally manipulate and enhance chemical reactivity in helium nanodroplets, we investigate the effective interaction and the resulting correlations between two diatomic molecules immersed in a bath of bosons. By analogy with the bipolaron, we introduce the biangulon quasiparticle describing two rotating molecules that align with respect to each other due to the effective attractive interaction mediated by the excitations of the bath. We study this system in different parameter regimes and apply several theoretical approaches to describe its properties. Using a Born–Oppenheimer approximation, we investigate the dependence of the effective intermolecular interaction on the rotational state of the two molecules. In the strong-coupling regime, a product-state ansatz shows that the molecules tend to have a strong alignment in the ground state. To investigate the system in the weak-coupling regime, we apply a one-phonon excitation variational ansatz, which allows us to access the energy spectrum. In comparison to the angulon quasiparticle, the biangulon shows shifted angulon instabilities and an additional spectral instability, where resonant angular momentum transfer between the molecules and the bath takes place. These features are proposed as an experimentally observable signature for the formation of the biangulon quasiparticle. Finally, by using products of single angulon and bare impurity wave functions as basis states, we introduce a diagonalization scheme that allows us to describe the transition from two separated angulons to a biangulon as a function of the distance between the two molecules.","lang":"eng"}],"main_file_link":[{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02658","open_access":"1"}],"type":"journal_article","day":"27","month":"04","article_processing_charge":"No","date_updated":"2024-08-07T07:16:53Z","isi":1,"keyword":["Physical and Theoretical Chemistry","General Physics and Astronomy"],"acknowledgement":"We are grateful to Areg Ghazaryan for valuable discussions. M.L. acknowledges support from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under Project No. P29902-N27 and from the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant No. 801770 (ANGULON). G.B. acknowledges support from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under Project No. M2461-N27. A.D. acknowledges funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the European Research Council (ERC) Grant Agreement No. 694227 and under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 836146. R.S. was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC-2111 – 390814868.","project":[{"call_identifier":"FWF","grant_number":"P29902","name":"Quantum rotations in the presence of a many-body environment","_id":"26031614-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425"},{"_id":"2688CF98-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","name":"Angulon: physics and applications of a new quasiparticle","grant_number":"801770","call_identifier":"H2020"},{"call_identifier":"FWF","_id":"26986C82-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","name":"A path-integral approach to composite impurities","grant_number":"M02641"},{"grant_number":"694227","_id":"25C6DC12-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","name":"Analysis of quantum many-body systems","call_identifier":"H2020"}],"intvolume":"       152","volume":152,"year":"2020","article_type":"original","citation":{"ieee":"X. Li, E. Yakaboylu, G. Bighin, R. Schmidt, M. Lemeshko, and A. Deuchert, “Intermolecular forces and correlations mediated by a phonon bath,” <i>The Journal of Chemical Physics</i>, vol. 152, no. 16. AIP Publishing, 2020.","mla":"Li, Xiang, et al. “Intermolecular Forces and Correlations Mediated by a Phonon Bath.” <i>The Journal of Chemical Physics</i>, vol. 152, no. 16, 164302, AIP Publishing, 2020, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5144759\">10.1063/1.5144759</a>.","short":"X. Li, E. Yakaboylu, G. Bighin, R. Schmidt, M. Lemeshko, A. Deuchert, The Journal of Chemical Physics 152 (2020).","ama":"Li X, Yakaboylu E, Bighin G, Schmidt R, Lemeshko M, Deuchert A. Intermolecular forces and correlations mediated by a phonon bath. <i>The Journal of Chemical Physics</i>. 2020;152(16). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5144759\">10.1063/1.5144759</a>","apa":"Li, X., Yakaboylu, E., Bighin, G., Schmidt, R., Lemeshko, M., &#38; Deuchert, A. (2020). Intermolecular forces and correlations mediated by a phonon bath. <i>The Journal of Chemical Physics</i>. AIP Publishing. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5144759\">https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5144759</a>","chicago":"Li, Xiang, Enderalp Yakaboylu, Giacomo Bighin, Richard Schmidt, Mikhail Lemeshko, and Andreas Deuchert. “Intermolecular Forces and Correlations Mediated by a Phonon Bath.” <i>The Journal of Chemical Physics</i>. AIP Publishing, 2020. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5144759\">https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5144759</a>.","ista":"Li X, Yakaboylu E, Bighin G, Schmidt R, Lemeshko M, Deuchert A. 2020. Intermolecular forces and correlations mediated by a phonon bath. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 152(16), 164302."},"ec_funded":1,"_id":"8587","article_number":"164302","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"author":[{"last_name":"Li","first_name":"Xiang","id":"4B7E523C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Li, Xiang"},{"full_name":"Yakaboylu, Enderalp","id":"38CB71F6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Yakaboylu","first_name":"Enderalp","orcid":"0000-0001-5973-0874"},{"last_name":"Bighin","first_name":"Giacomo","full_name":"Bighin, Giacomo","id":"4CA96FD4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-8823-9777"},{"full_name":"Schmidt, Richard","first_name":"Richard","last_name":"Schmidt"},{"id":"37CB05FA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Lemeshko, Mikhail","last_name":"Lemeshko","first_name":"Mikhail","orcid":"0000-0002-6990-7802"},{"orcid":"0000-0003-3146-6746","id":"4DA65CD0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Deuchert, Andreas","first_name":"Andreas","last_name":"Deuchert"}],"publication":"The Journal of Chemical Physics","doi":"10.1063/1.5144759","external_id":{"isi":["000530448300001"],"arxiv":["1912.02658"]},"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1089-7690"],"issn":["0021-9606"]}}