Theoretical advances in polariton chemistry and molecular cavity quantum electrodynamics

A Mandal, MAD Taylor, BM Weight… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
When molecules are coupled to an optical cavity, new light–matter hybrid states, so-called
polaritons, are formed due to quantum light–matter interactions. With the experimental …

Ab initio nonadiabatic molecular dynamics of charge carriers in metal halide perovskites

W Li, Y She, AS Vasenko, OV Prezhdo - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Photoinduced nonequilibrium processes in nanoscale materials play key roles in
photovoltaic and photocatalytic applications. This review summarizes recent theoretical …

Newton-X platform: New software developments for surface hopping and nuclear ensembles

M Barbatti, M Bondanza, R Crespo-Otero… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Newton-X is an open-source computational platform to perform nonadiabatic molecular
dynamics based on surface hopping and spectrum simulations using the nuclear ensemble …

NWChem: Recent and Ongoing Developments

D Mejia-Rodriguez, E Aprà, J Autschbach… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This paper summarizes developments in the NWChem computational chemistry suite since
the last major release (NWChem 7.0. 0). Specifically, we focus on functionality, along with …

Deep learning of dynamically responsive chemical Hamiltonians with semiempirical quantum mechanics

G Zhou, N Lubbers, K Barros… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Conventional machine-learning (ML) models in computational chemistry learn to directly
predict molecular properties using quantum chemistry only for reference data. While these …

Nexmd v2. 0 software package for nonadiabatic excited state molecular dynamics simulations

VM Freixas, W Malone, X Li, H Song… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We present NEXMD version 2.0, the second release of the NEXMD (Nonadiabatic EXcited-
state Molecular Dynamics) software package. Across a variety of new features, NEXMD v2. 0 …

Theory and modeling of light-matter interactions in chemistry: current and future

BM Weight, X Li, Y Zhang - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Light–matter interaction not only plays an instrumental role in characterizing materials'
properties via various spectroscopic techniques but also provides a general strategy to …

Metal-insulator transition in a semiconductor heterobilayer model

Y Yang, MA Morales, S Zhang - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Transition metal dichalcogenide superlattices provide an exciting new platform for exploring
and understanding a variety of phases of matter. The moiré continuum Hamiltonian, of two …

X-ray and optical circular dichroism as local and global ultrafast chiral probes of [12] helicene racemization

VM Freixas, JR Rouxel, Y Nam, S Tretiak… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Chirality is a fundamental molecular property that plays a crucial role in biophysics and drug
design. Optical circular dichroism (OCD) is a well-established chiral spectroscopic probe in …

Sub-10-fs observation of bound exciton formation in organic optoelectronic devices

M Maimaris, AJ Pettipher, M Azzouzi, DJ Walke… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Fundamental mechanisms underlying exciton formation in organic semiconductors are
complex and elusive as it occurs on ultrashort sub-100-fs timescales. Some fundamental …