Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

The influence of retardation and dielectric environments on interatomic Coulombic decay

  • Joshua Leo Hemmerich,
  • Robert Bennett,
  • Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05091-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Interatomic Coulombic Decay is a non-radiative relaxation process between excited systems. Here the authors report a theoretical framework based on macroscopic quantum electrodynamics that shows the role of retardation and an environment in the enhancement or suppression of the ICD rate.