Deviation of a physical system from being a harmonic oscillator
This article is about anharmonic oscillators. For the anharmonic ratio, see Cross-ratio.
Not to be confused with Enharmonicity or Inharmonicity.
Potential energy of a diatomic molecule as a function of atomic spacing. When the molecules are too close or too far away, they experience a restoring force back towards u0. (Imagine a marble rolling back and forth in the depression.) The blue curve is close in shape to the molecule's actual potential well, while the red parabola is a good approximation for small oscillations. The red approximation treats the molecule as a harmonic oscillator, because the restoring force, -V'(u), is linear with respect to the displacement u.
In classical mechanics, anharmonicity is the deviation of a system from being a harmonic oscillator. An oscillator that is not oscillating in harmonic motion is known as an anharmonic oscillator where the system can be approximated to a harmonic oscillator and the anharmonicity can be calculated using perturbation theory. If the anharmonicity is large, then other numerical techniques have to be used. In reality all oscillating systems are anharmonic, but most approximate the harmonic oscillator the smaller the amplitude of the oscillation is.
As a result, oscillations with frequencies and etc., where is the fundamental frequency of the oscillator, appear. Furthermore, the frequency deviates from the frequency of the harmonic oscillations. See also intermodulation and combination tones. As a first approximation, the frequency shift is proportional to the square of the oscillation amplitude :
In a system of oscillators with natural frequencies , , ... anharmonicity results in additional oscillations with frequencies .
Anharmonicity also modifies the energy profile of the resonance curve, leading to interesting phenomena such as the foldover effect and superharmonic resonance.
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ground state. However, vibrations of real molecules always have some anharmonicity, which causes coupling between different vibrational modes that in turn...
to an anharmonic oscillator; the observation of overtones is only possible because vibrations are anharmonic. Another consequence of anharmonicity is that...
overtones are forbidden in both infrared and Raman spectra. However, when anharmonicity is taken into account, the transitions are weakly allowed. In Raman...
such as the existence of unbound states. It also accounts for the anharmonicity of real bonds and the non-zero transition probability for overtone and...
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for thermal conductivity in high temperatures accordingly. Describing anharmonic effects is complicated because an exact treatment as in the harmonic case...
higher temperatures the Rayleigh-type scattering regime is obscured by the anharmonic damping (typically with a ~λ−2 dependence on wavelength), which becomes...
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to realistic problems, so Heisenberg turned to a simpler example, the anharmonic oscillator. The dipole oscillator consists of a simple harmonic oscillator...
advantage of the fluxonium qubit biased at the sweet spot is the large anharmonicity, which allows fast local microwave control and mitigates spectral crowding...
harmonic motion, they rather tend to deviate from it or, there exists anharmonicity in real life molecular vibrational motion. A purely empirical expression...
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cases are qualitatively different. In 1D thermal expansion is caused by anharmonicity of interatomic potential only. Therefore, the sign of thermal expansion...
model used to determine the lattice thermal conductivity, κL, the highly anharmonic behavior due to phonon scattering results in a large thermal resistance...
and all its potential energy converts to kinetic energy of the mass. Anharmonicity Critical speed Effective mass (spring–mass system) Normal mode Parametric...
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solid with just one phonon, because the crystal vibration is slightly anharmonic. However, in many materials, the elementary excitations are very close...
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