A comprehensive theory for relativistic polaritonic chemistry: a way toward a four component ab initio treatment of molecular systems

Autor: Thiam, Guillaume, Rossi, Riccardo, Koch, Henrik, Belpassi, Leonardo, Ronca, Enrico
Rok vydání: 2024
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: We present a new ab-initio approach to study molecules containing heavy atoms strongly interacting with quantum fields in optical devices. The relativistic quantum electrodynamics (QED) theory has been rewritten with a formalism close to relativistic quantum chemistry. This general framework represents the ideal starting point to extend the main quantum chemistry methods to relativistic QED. The Polaritonic Dirac Hartree Fock (Pol-DHF) approach is the first method we propose based on this theory. Pol-DHF allows for the simulation of field induced effects on the ground and excited state properties of heavy transition metals molecular complexes. The method is able to include not only the effects of the photons but can be easily extended also to include explicit interactions with positrons. Application of Pol-DHF to three metal hydrides revealed the importance of including radiative QED corrections to the treatment in strong coupling conditions. Due to an accurate description of spin-orbit coupling, the method is able to reproduce polaritonic effects happening at the crossing between singlet and triplet potential energy surfaces.
Comment: 17 pages, 8 figures
Databáze: arXiv