Quantum effects on liquid dynamics as evidenced by the presence of well-defined collective excitations in liquid para-hydrogen

Autor: R. Fernandez-Perea, Kenichi Kinugawa, Peter Verkerk, B. Fåk, Javier Dawidowski, M. T. Fernández-Díaz, Carlos Cabrillo, F. J. Bermejo, Stephen M. Bennington
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Physical review letters. 84(23)
ISSN: 1079-7114
Popis: The origin of the well-defined collective excitations found in liquid $\mathrm{para}\ensuremath{-}{\mathrm{H}}_{2}$ by recent experiments is investigated. The persistence of their relatively long lifetimes down to microscopic scales is well accounted for by calculations carried out by means of path-integral-centroid molecular dynamics. In contrast only overdamped excitations are found in calculations carried within the classical limit. The results provide fully quantitative evidence of quantum effects on the dynamics of a simple liquid.
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