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June 26, 2017
Plasmon decay paper is now online
A new paper discussing plasmon decay in metal nanoparticles has been published online in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C and can be found here. In this paper, a linear silver chain is chosen as a prototype of silver nanorods. The formation and evolution of transverse (orthogonal to the chain) plasmons has been studied through […]
May 15, 2017
Paper on Excited State Raman is now online
Time-resolved Raman spectroscopy has proven useful for studying the formation of polarons in conjugated polymers, verifying the presence of reactive intermediates in photochemical reactions, investigating nonradiative transitions in the short lifetime of the photoexcited species, and resolving electron−phonon coupling strengths and exciton dissociation in crystalline materials. We extended the recently published transient vibrational analysis to […]
May 15, 2017
Vibrational Perturbation Theory with TDDFT Paper is now online
With the recent (yet to be published) work by us and collaborators at Gaussian on the efficient implementation of the analytic TDDFT energy Hessians, it is possible to perform calculations of excited-state infrared spectra of medium-large isolated molecular systems, with anharmonicity effects included in both the energy and property surfaces. We also explore the use […]
March 28, 2017
Probing Curiously Long-Lived Coherent States in Bimetallic Pt (II) Clusters
Coherence between electronic states occurs when at least two time-evolving eigenstates form a superposition state by linear combination and the frequencies of the two states feature a constant phase difference. The simplest representation is the coherence between two eigenstates although in principle an infinite number of states may be in coherent superposition. However, an event […]
December 7, 2016
Can Quantized Vibrational Effects be Obtained from Ehrenfest Mixed Quantum-Classical Dynamics?
An interesting question is whether or not mean-field or “Ehrenfest” mixed quantum-classical dynamics can capture the quantized vibrational features in photoabsorption spectra that result from infrared and Raman-active vibrational transitions. We show that vibrational and electronic absorption spectra can be obtained together within a single Ehrenfest simulation. The electronic transitions show new sidebands that are […]