Ultrafast vibrational dynamics of hydrogen bonds in the condensed phase

ETJ Nibbering, T Elsaesser - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen bonding represents one of the fundamental types of chemical bonding and
underlies the structure of a large variety of molecular systems, among them liquids …

Simulating coherent multidimensional spectroscopy of nonadiabatic molecular processes: From the infrared to the x-ray regime

M Kowalewski, BP Fingerhut, KE Dorfman… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Crossings of electronic potential energy surfaces in nuclear configuration space, known as
conical intersections, determine the rates and outcomes of a large class of photochemical …

Exciton-coupled coherent magnons in a 2D semiconductor

YJ Bae, J Wang, A Scheie, J Xu, DG Chica… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The recent discoveries of two-dimensional (2D) magnets,,,,–and their stacking into van der
Waals structures,,,–have expanded the horizon of 2D phenomena. One exciting application …

Phonon coherences reveal the polaronic character of excitons in two-dimensional lead halide perovskites

F Thouin, DA Valverde-Chávez, C Quarti… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Hybrid organic–inorganic semiconductors feature complex lattice dynamics due to the ionic
character of the crystal and the softness arising from non-covalent bonds between molecular …

Optical control of ultrafast structural dynamics in a fluorescent protein

CDM Hutchison, JM Baxter, A Fitzpatrick, G Dorlhiac… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The photoisomerization reaction of a fluorescent protein chromophore occurs on the ultrafast
timescale. The structural dynamics that result from femtosecond optical excitation have …

Tracking excited state decay mechanisms of pyrimidine nucleosides in real time

R Borrego-Varillas, A Nenov, P Kabaciński… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
DNA owes its remarkable photostability to its building blocks—the nucleosides—that
efficiently dissipate the energy acquired upon ultraviolet light absorption. The mechanism …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Spin dynamics in van der Waals magnetic systems

C Tang, L Alahmed, M Mahdi, Y Xiong, J Inman… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
The discovery of atomic monolayer magnetic materials has stimulated intense research
activities in the two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials community. The field is …

Characterizing mode anharmonicity and Huang–Rhys factors using models of femtosecond coherence spectra

MS Barclay, JS Huff, RD Pensack… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Femtosecond laser pulses readily produce coherent quantum beats in transient–absorption
spectra. These oscillatory signals often arise from molecular vibrations and therefore may …

A real-time time-dependent density functional tight-binding implementation for semiclassical excited state electron–nuclear dynamics and pump–probe spectroscopy …

FP Bonafé, B Aradi, B Hourahine… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The increasing need to simulate the dynamics of photoexcited molecular systems and
nanosystems in the subpicosecond regime demands new efficient tools able to describe the …