QUANTUM MODE-COUPLING THEORY: Formulation and Applications to Normal and Supercooled Quantum Liquids

Eran Rabani; David R. Reichman

doi:10.1146/annurev.physchem.56.092503.141138

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volume 56, 2005

Review Article

QUANTUM MODE-COUPLING THEORY: Formulation and Applications to Normal and Supercooled Quantum Liquids

Eran Rabani¹, and David R. Reichman²
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Affiliations: ¹School of Chemistry, The Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel; email: [email protected] ²Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; email: (see Acknowledgments)
Vol. 56:157-185 (Volume publication date May 2005) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.physchem.56.092503.141138
First published as a Review in Advance on November 19, 2004
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Abstract

▪ Abstract

We review our recent efforts to formulate and study a mode-coupling approach to real-time dynamic fluctuations in quantum liquids. Comparison is made between the theory and recent neutron scattering experiments performed on liquid ortho-deuterium and para-hydrogen. We discuss extensions of the theory to supercooled and glassy states where quantum fluctuations compete with thermal fluctuations. Experimental scenarios for quantum glassy liquids are briefly discussed.

Keyword(s): normal and supercooled quantum liquids, path integral Monte Carlo, quantum dynamics

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