Coherence in Chemistry: Foundations and Frontiers

JD Schultz, JL Yuly, EA Arsenault, K Parker… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Coherence refers to correlations in waves. Because matter has a wave-particle nature, it is
unsurprising that coherence has deep connections with the most contemporary issues in …

PathSum: A C++ and Fortran suite of fully quantum mechanical real-time path integral methods for (multi-) system+ bath dynamics

S Kundu, N Makri - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
This paper reports the release of PathSum, a new software suite of state-of-the-art path
integral methods for studying the dynamics of single or extended systems coupled to …

All-mode quantum–classical path integral simulation of bacteriochlorophyll dimer exciton-vibration dynamics

A Bose, N Makri - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2020 - ACS Publications
We use the quantum–classical path integral (QCPI) methodology to report numerically exact,
fully quantum mechanical results for the exciton-vibration dynamics in the …

Small matrix path integral for system-bath dynamics

N Makri - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2020 - ACS Publications
A small matrix decomposition of the path integral expression (SMatPI) that yields the
reduced density matrix of a system interacting with a dissipative harmonic bath is obtained …

[HTML][HTML] Small matrix disentanglement of the path integral: overcoming the exponential tensor scaling with memory length

N Makri - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The discretized path integral expression for the reduced density matrix (RDM) of a system
interacting with a dissipative harmonic bath is fully entangled because of influence …

Intramolecular vibrations in excitation energy transfer: Insights from real-time path integral calculations

S Kundu, N Makri - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Excitation energy transfer (EET) is fundamental to many processes in chemical and
biological systems and carries significant implications for the design of materials suitable for …

Ultrafast spectroscopy of photoactive molecular systems from first principles: Where we stand today and where we are going

I Conti, G Cerullo, A Nenov… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Computational spectroscopy is becoming a mandatory tool for the interpretation of the
complex, and often congested, spectral maps delivered by modern non-linear multi-pulse …

Predicting the future of excitation energy transfer in light-harvesting complex with artificial intelligence-based quantum dynamics

A Ullah, PO Dral - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Exploring excitation energy transfer (EET) in light-harvesting complexes (LHCs) is essential
for understanding the natural processes and design of highly-efficient photovoltaic devices …

Two-tier modular anharmonic small matrix path integral with composite spin-boson baths

N Makri - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2024 - ACS Publications
The anharmonic small matrix path integral (anh-SMatPI) algorithm is adapted to composite
environments, where each anharmonic bath unit couples to the system and to its own …

[HTML][HTML] A symmetrical quasi-classical windowing model for the molecular dynamics treatment of non-adiabatic processes involving many electronic states

SJ Cotton, WH Miller - The Journal of chemical physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
In the previous work of Cotton and Miller [J. Chem. Phys. 145, 144108 (2016)], an improved
symmetrical quasi-classical (SQC) windowing model for the molecular dynamics treatment …