Any comments welcome.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Entanglement in quantum chemistry
Today I gave a talk at the weekly UQ Condensed Matter Theory group meeting (cake meeting because someone always brings a cake!) on the possible role of entanglement measures in quantum chemistry. I only got through the first half of these notes and so will continue next week.
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Is it something to do with breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation? In molecular spectroscopy you occasionally hear this term thro... -
I welcome discussion on this point. I don't think it is as sensitive or as important a topic as the author order on papers. With rega...
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Nitrogen fluoride (NF) seems like a very simple molecule and you would think it would very well understood, particularly as it is small enou...
Question: How is entanglement in molecules (in atomic bonds for example) protected against decoherence from the environment?
ReplyDeleteGood question.
ReplyDeleteThe energy scale associated with the entanglement is the energy different between a singlet and a triplet state. Usually this is of order of an eV. This is much larger than the fluctuating energy scales associated with the environment.
The down side is that this large energy scale means it is very difficult to manipulate and control the entanglement.