Ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) is used to directly simulate the injection and relaxation of excess electrons into supercritical helium fluid and ambient liquid water. A method for modulating the initial energy of the excess electron in the RPMD model is presented and used to study both low-energy (cold) and high-energy (hot) electron injections. For cold injection into both solvents, th...

In this paper, we address the relations between the structure, electronic level structure, energetics, and localization dynamics of an excess electron in a bubble in liquid 4He, 3He, and Ne. Our treatment of the dynamics of formation for the electron bubble rests on a quantum mechanical Wigner-Seitz description of the excess electron in conjunction with a hydrodynamic picture for the liquid. Th...