The PYXAID program for non-adiabatic molecular dynamics in condensed matter systems

AV Akimov, OV Prezhdo - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2013 - ACS Publications
This work introduces the PYXAID program, developed for non-adiabatic molecular dynamics
simulations in condensed matter systems. By applying the classical path approximation to …

Advanced capabilities of the PYXAID program: integration schemes, decoherence effects, multiexcitonic states, and field-matter interaction

AV Akimov, OV Prezhdo - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2014 - ACS Publications
In our previous work [J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2013, 9, 4959], we introduced the PYXAID
program, developed for the purpose of performing nonadiabatic molecular dynamics …

Maximizing singlet fission by intermolecular packing

L Wang, Y Olivier, OV Prezhdo… - The journal of physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A novel nonadiabatic molecular dynamics scheme is applied to study the singlet fission (SF)
process in pentacene dimers as a function of longitudinal and lateral displacements of the …

Nonadiabatic Dynamics of Charge Transfer and Singlet Fission at the Pentacene/C60 Interface

AV Akimov, OV Prezhdo - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Charge carrier multiplication in organic heterojunction systems, a process known as singlet
fission (SF), holds promise for development of solar cells with enhanced photon-to-electron …

Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics for thousand atom systems: a tight-binding approach toward PYXAID

S Pal, DJ Trivedi, AV Akimov, B Aradi… - Journal of chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Excited state dynamics at the nanoscale requires treatment of systems involving hundreds
and thousands of atoms. In the majority of cases, depending on the process under …

Time-domain ab initio modeling of excitation dynamics in quantum dots

AJ Neukirch, K Hyeon-Deuk, OV Prezhdo - Coordination Chemistry …, 2014 - Elsevier
The review discusses the results of ab initio time-dependent density functional theory and
non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulations of photoinduced dynamics of charges …

Exciton multiplication from first principles

HM Jaeger, K Hyeon-Deuk… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Third-generation photovolatics require demanding cost and power conversion efficiency
standards, which may be achieved through efficient exciton multiplication. Therefore …

Ab Initio Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics of the Ultrafast Electron Injection from a PbSe Quantum Dot into the TiO2 Surface

R Long, OV Prezhdo - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011 - ACS Publications
Following recent experiments [Science 2010, 328, 1543; PNAS 2011, 108, 965], we report
an ab initio nonadiabatic molecular dynamics (NAMD) simulation of the ultrafast …

Size dependence of the multiple exciton generation rate in CdSe quantum dots

Z Lin, A Franceschetti, MT Lusk - ACS nano, 2011 - ACS Publications
The multiplication rates of hot carriers in CdSe quantum dots are quantified using an
atomistic pseudopotential approach and first-order perturbation theory. We consider both the …

Multiple exciton generation and ultrafast exciton dynamics in HgTe colloidal quantum dots

A Al-Otaify, SV Kershaw, S Gupta, AL Rogach… - Physical Chemistry …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The investigation of sub-nanosecond exciton dynamics in HgTe colloidal quantum dots
using ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy is reported. The transmittance change …