Riding quantum trajectories beyond Born-Oppenheimer: building better methods for reaction dynamics

• Grant number: 22/00338-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: May 01, 2022
• End date: November 30, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - General Physics
• Agreement: Texas Tech University
• Mobility Program: SPRINT - Projetos de pesquisa - Mobilidade
• Principal Investigator: Brett Vern Carlson
• Grantee: Brett Vern Carlson
• Principal researcher abroad: Lionel William Poirier
• Institution abroad: Texas Tech University (TTU), United States
• Host Institution: Divisão de Ciências Fundamentais (IEF). Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA). Ministério da Defesa (Brasil). São José dos Campos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 17/05660-0 - Theoretical studies of the structure and reactions of exotic nuclei and many-body systems, AP.TEM

Abstract

We propose a comprehensive, systematic trajectory-based reexamination of the Fermi decelerator system, as a model for non-adiabatic dynamics in molecular and nuclear systems. We also plan to develop applications of quantum trajectory methods to nuclear reactions. (AU)