Universal pairwise interatomic van der Waals potentials based on quantum Drude oscillators

A Khabibrakhmanov, DV Fedorov… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Repulsive short-range and attractive long-range van der Waals (vdW) forces play an
appreciable role in the behavior of extended molecular systems. When using empirical force …

Stacking selected polarization switching and phase transition in vdW ferroelectric α-In2Se3 junction devices

Y Wu, T Zhang, D Guo, B Li, K Pei, W You, Y Du… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The structure and dynamics of ferroelectric domain walls are essential for polarization
switching in ferroelectrics, which remains relatively unexplored in two-dimensional …

Reduction strategies of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in farmland soils: Microbial degradation, plant transport inhibition, and their mechanistic analysis

L Zhao, T Yao, Y Zhao, S Sun, C Lyu, W Zhao - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study focuses on the abatement of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), a global
pollutant, in farmland soils. Seven controlled PAHs in China were used as the target ligands …

Casimir self-interaction energy density of quantum electrodynamic fields

A Tkatchenko, DV Fedorov - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Quantum electrodynamic fields possess fluctuations corresponding to transient particle-
antiparticle dipoles, which can be characterized by a nonvanishing polarizability density …

Optimized quantum Drude oscillators for atomic and molecular response properties

S Góger, A Khabibrakhmanov… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
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 in environments: Toward systematic quantum embedding of electrons and Drude oscillators

M Ditte, M Barborini, L Medrano Sandonas… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We develop a quantum embedding method that enables accurate and efficient treatment of
interactions between molecules and an environment, while explicitly including many-body …

Quantum framework for describing retarded and nonretarded molecular interactions in external electric fields

MR Karimpour, DV Fedorov, A Tkatchenko - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
We employ various quantum-mechanical approaches for studying the impact of electric
fields on both nonretarded and retarded noncovalent interactions between atoms or …

London dispersion forces and steric effects within nanocomposites tune interaction energies and chain conformation

B Zhang, SD Zarić, SS Zrilić, I Gofman, B Heck… - Communications …, 2025 - nature.com
The interplay between attractive London dispersion forces and steric effects due to repulsive
forces resulting from the Pauli principle often determines the geometry and stability of …

Molecular Interactions Induced by a Static Electric Field in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Electrodynamics

MR Karimpour, DV Fedorov… - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
By means of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics applied to coupled
harmonic Drude oscillators, we study the interaction between two neutral atoms or …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum Drude oscillators coupled with Coulomb potential as an efficient model for bonded and non-covalent interactions in atomic dimers

M Ditte, M Barborini, A Tkatchenko - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The quantum Drude oscillator (QDO) model has been widely used as an efficient surrogate
to describe the electric response properties of matter as well as long-range interactions in …