Electronic-structure methods for materials design

N Marzari, A Ferretti, C Wolverton - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
The accuracy and efficiency of electronic-structure methods to understand, predict and
design the properties of materials has driven a new paradigm in research. Simulations can …

Charge transport in molecular materials: An assessment of computational methods

H Oberhofer, K Reuter, J Blumberger - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The booming field of molecular electronics has fostered a surge of computational research
on electronic properties of organic molecular solids. In particular, with respect to a …

[HTML][HTML] Octopus, a computational framework for exploring light-driven phenomena and quantum dynamics in extended and finite systems

N Tancogne-Dejean, MJT Oliveira… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Over the last few years, extraordinary advances in experimental and theoretical tools have
allowed us to monitor and control matter at short time and atomic scales with a high degree …

Real-space grids and the Octopus code as tools for the development of new simulation approaches for electronic systems

X Andrade, D Strubbe, U De Giovannini… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Real-space grids are a powerful alternative for the simulation of electronic systems. One of
the main advantages of the approach is the flexibility and simplicity of working directly in real …

Quantum coherence controls the charge separation in a prototypical artificial light-harvesting system

C Andrea Rozzi, S Maria Falke, N Spallanzani… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The efficient conversion of light into electricity or chemical fuels is a fundamental challenge.
In artificial photosynthetic and photovoltaic devices, this conversion is generally thought to …

Time-dependent density-functional theory in massively parallel computer architectures: the octopus project

X Andrade, J Alberdi-Rodriguez… - Journal of Physics …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Octopus is a general-purpose density-functional theory (DFT) code, with a particular
emphasis on the time-dependent version of DFT (TDDFT). In this paper we present the …

Cavity-correlated electron-nuclear dynamics from first principles

J Flick, P Narang - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
The rapidly develo** and converging fields of polaritonic chemistry and quantum optics
necessitate a unified approach to predict strongly correlated light-matter interactions with …

Regarding the validity of the time-dependent Kohn–Sham approach for electron-nuclear dynamics via trajectory surface hop**

SA Fischer, BF Habenicht, AB Madrid… - The Journal of …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
The implementation of fewest-switches surface-hop** (FSSH) within time-dependent
Kohn–Sham (TDKS) theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 163001 (2005)] has allowed us to study …

Second generation Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics

TD Kühne - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Computer simulation methods, such as Monte Carlo or molecular dynamics, are very
powerful theoretical techniques to provide detailed and essentially exact informations on …

Quantum mode selectivity of plasmon-induced water splitting on gold nanoparticles

L Yan, F Wang, S Meng - ACS nano, 2016 - ACS Publications
Plasmon induced water splitting is a promising research area with the potential for efficient
conversion of solar to chemical energy, yet its atomic mechanism is not well understood …