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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 153, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0031389
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We study the generation of electronic ring currents in the presence of nonadiabatic coupling using circularly polarized light. For this, we introduce a solvable model consisting of an electron and a nucleus rotating around a common center and subject to their mutual Coulomb interaction. The simplicity of the model brings to the forefront the non-trivial properties of electronic ring currents in the presence of coupling to the nuclear coordinates and enables the characterization of various limiting situations transparently. Employing this model, we show that vibronic coupling effects play a crucial role even when a single E degenerate eigenstate of the system supports the current. The maximum current of a degenerate eigenstate depends on the strength of the nonadiabatic interactions. In the limit of large nuclear to electronic masses, in which the Born-Oppenheimer approximation becomes exact, constant ring currents and time-averaged oscillatory currents necessarily vanish.
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