Revealing Hidden Orbital Pathways in NonThermal Hot Carrier Relaxation of MXenes via NonSecular Redfield Quantum Kinetics
Abstract
Non-thermal carrier relaxation is routinely inferred from population dynamics or spectroscopic observables, yet neither class of quantity uniquely identifies the microscopic channels through which energy and coherence are redistributed. We introduce a pathway-resolved quantum-kinetic framework that simultaneously projects ultrafast relaxation onto orbital populations, directional inter-orbital transferes, coherence, spectroscopic visibility, and a hidden-pathway sector of the dynamical transfer network. Application to MXenes exposes strongly non-uniform orbital redistribution together with material-specific hierarchies of microscopic transfer channels. Temperature, excitation amplitude, and dissipative parameters modulate pathway competition and spectral amplitudes while leaving the identity of the dominant channels largely intact. Instantaneous transfer contributions, cumulative directional transfer, coherence, and spectroscopic visibility are shown to follow inequivalent hierarchical orderings. This non-equivalence isolates a set of hidden pathways that remain dynamically consequential despite weak conventional spectroscopic signatures. The resulting time energy coherence representation recasts nonthermal relaxation as a structured dynamical network comprising observable and hidden sectors, thereby providing a general methodology for resolving microscopic orbital transfer pathways in driven quantum materials.
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BibTeX
@misc{choobini2026revealing,
title = {{Revealing Hidden Orbital Pathways in NonThermal Hot Carrier Relaxation of MXenes via NonSecular Redfield Quantum Kinetics}},
author = {Ali Asghar Molavi Choobini and Abbas Chimeh and Jinhui Zhong},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2608.23230},
eprint = {2608.23230},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23230},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Revealing Hidden Orbital Pathways in NonThermal Hot Carrier Relaxation of MXenes via NonSecular Redfield Quantum Kinetics
AU - Ali Asghar Molavi Choobini
AU - Abbas Chimeh
AU - Jinhui Zhong
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/07
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2608.23230
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23230
AB - Non-thermal carrier relaxation is routinely inferred from population dynamics or spectroscopic observables, yet neither class of quantity uniquely identifies the microscopic channels through which energy and coherence are redistributed. We introduce a pathway-resolved quantum-kinetic framework that simultaneously projects ultrafast relaxation onto orbital populations, directional inter-orbital transferes, coherence, spectroscopic visibility, and a hidden-pathway sector of the dynamical transfer network. Application to MXenes exposes strongly non-uniform orbital redistribution together with material-specific hierarchies of microscopic transfer channels. Temperature, excitation amplitude, and dissipative parameters modulate pathway competition and spectral amplitudes while leaving the identity of the dominant channels largely intact. Instantaneous transfer contributions, cumulative directional transfer, coherence, and spectroscopic visibility are shown to follow inequivalent hierarchical orderings. This non-equivalence isolates a set of hidden pathways that remain dynamically consequential despite weak conventional spectroscopic signatures. The resulting time energy coherence representation recasts nonthermal relaxation as a structured dynamical network comprising observable and hidden sectors, thereby providing a general methodology for resolving microscopic orbital transfer pathways in driven quantum materials.
ER -