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Microsolvation effects on the excited state dynamics of protonated tryptophan

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Thomas Rizzo, Oleg Boyarkine, Michele Cascella, Matteo Guglielmi, Anthi Kamariotou

To better understand the complex photophysics of the amino acid tryptophan, which is widely used as a probe of protein structure and dynamics, we have measured electronic spectra of protonated, gas-phase tryptophan solvated with a controlled number of wate ...

2006

On the Proton Transfer Mechanism in Ammonia-Bridged 7-Hydroxyquinoline: a First-Principles TDDFT Molecular Dynamics Study

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Matteo Guglielmi

We have investigated the mechanism of proton transfer in the lowest photoexcited state of 7-hydroxyquinoline·(NH3)3 using TDDFT based molecular dynamics. We observe a concerted mechanism according to which all protons are transferred simultaneously in a fa ...

2009

Local control theory for superconducting qubits

Ivano Tavernelli, Sara Bonella

In this work, we develop a method to design control pulses for fixed-frequency superconducting qubits coupled via tunable couplers based on local control theory, an approach commonly employed to steer chemical reactions. Local control theory provides an al ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

A wavelet analysis for the X-ray absorption spectra of molecules

Ursula Röthlisberger, Majed Chergui, Ivano Tavernelli, Thomas James Penfold, Amal El Nahhas, Marco Eli Reinhard

We present a Wavelet transform analysis for the X-ray absorption spectra of molecules. In contrast to the traditionally used Fourier transform approach, this analysis yields a 2D correlation plot in both R- and k-space. As a consequence, it is possible to ...

American Institute of Physics2013

Electron Localization Dynamics in the Triplet Excited State of Ru(bpy)3]2+ in Aqueous Solution

Ursula Röthlisberger, Majed Chergui, Ivano Tavernelli

Hybrid DFT/classical molecular dynamics of the long-lived triplet excited state of [Ru(bpy)3]2+ (bpy=2,2-bipyridine) in aqueous solution is used to investigate the solvent-mediated electron localization and dynamics in the triplet metal-to-ligand charge-tr ...

2010

Dual-frame optimization for informationally complete quantum measurements

Laurin Elias Fischer, Ivano Tavernelli

Randomized measurement protocols such as classical shadows represent powerful resources for quantum technologies, with applications ranging from quantum state characterization and process tomography to machine learning and error mitigation. Recently, the n ...

2024

Ultrafast anisotropic x-ray scattering in the condensed phase

Ursula Röthlisberger, Majed Chergui, Ivano Tavernelli, Thomas James Penfold

The advent of x-ray free electron lasers offers new opportunities for x-ray scattering (XRS) studies of ultrafast molecular dynamics in liquids, which have so far been limited to the 100 ps resolution of synchrotrons. In particular, anisotropic XRS induced ...

Institute of Physics (IoP) and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft2012

Intricacies of Describing Weak Interactions involving Halogen Atoms within Density Functional Theory

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Manuel Dömer

In this work we assess the performance of different dispersion-corrected DFT approaches (M06, M06-2X, DFT-D3 and DCACP) in reproducing high-level wave function based benchmark calculations on the weakly bound halogen dimers (X2)2 and X2-Ar (for X=F,Cl,Br,I ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Hydrophobicity with atomic resolution: Steady-state and ultrafast X-ray absorption and molecular dynamics studies

Majed Chergui, Ivano Tavernelli, Thomas James Penfold

Static and time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is used to probe the solvent shell structure around iodide and iodine. In particular, we characterize the changes ob served upon electron abstraction of aqueous iodide, which reflects the transit ...

De Gruyter2013

Early stages of radiation damage in graphite and carbon nanostructures: A first-principles molecular dynamics study

Ursula Röthlisberger, Lothar Helm, Oleg Yazyev, Ivano Tavernelli

Understanding radiation-induced defect formation in carbon materials is crucial for nuclear technology and for the manufacturing of nanostructures with desired properties. Using first-principles molecular dynamics, we perform a systematic study of the none ...

2007

Non-adiabatic coupling vectors within linear response time-dependent density functional theory

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Enrico Marko Tapavicza

A method is developed to compute the nonadiabatic coupling vectors (NACVs) between electronic ground and excited states as well as between any possible pair of excited states within the framework of linear response time-dependent density functional theory ...

2009

Solvent rearrangements during the transition from hydrophilic to hydrophobic solvation

Ursula Röthlisberger, Majed Chergui, Ivano Tavernelli, Thomas James Penfold, Manuel Dömer

We present an ab initio Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics study of the early time solvent dynamics after electron abstraction from aqueous iodide. An initial response occurs within ∼75 fs, corresponding to a water molecule sharing almost one electron wit ...

Elsevier2013

Local Control Theory in Trajectory Surface Hopping Dynamics Applied to the Excited-State Proton Transfer of 4-Hydroxyacridine

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Basile Curchod, Thomas James Penfold

The application of local control theory combined with nonadiabatic ab initio molecular dynamics to study the photoinduced intramolecular proton transfer reaction in 4-hydroxyacridine was investigated. All calculations were performed within the framework of ...

2015

Photophysics of a copper phenanthroline elucidated by trajectory and wavepacket-based quantum dynamics: a synergetic approach

Majed Chergui, Ivano Tavernelli, Thomas James Penfold, Gloria Capano

On-the-fly excited state molecular dynamics is a valuable method for studying non-equilibrium processes in excited states and is beginning to emerge as a mature approach much like its ground state counterparts. In contrast to quantum wavepacket dynamics me ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Charge Separation and Charge Carrier Mobility in Photocatalytic Metal‐Organic Frameworks

Berend Smit, Ivano Tavernelli, Kevin Maik Jablonka, Maria Fumanal Quintana

Metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) are highly versatile materials owing to their vast structural and chemical tunability. These hybrid inorganic–organic crystalline materials offer an ideal platform to incorporate light‐harvesting and catalytic centers and th ...

2020

Rhodopsin Absorption from First Principles: Bypassing Common Pitfalls

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Pablo Campomanes Ramos

Bovine rhodopsin is the most extensively studied retinal protein and is considered the prototype of this important class of photosensitive biosystems involved in the process of vision. Many theoretical investigations have attempted to elucidate the role of ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Nonadiabatic dynamics with intersystem crossings: A time-dependent density functional theory implementation

Ivano Tavernelli

In this work, we derive a method to perform trajectory-based nonadiabatic dynamics that is able to describe both nonadiabatic transitions and intersystem crossing events (transitions between states of different spin-multiplicity) at the same level of theor ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Acid-Induced Degradation of Phosphorescent Dopants for OLEDs and Its Application to the Synthesis of Tris-heteroleptic Iridium(III) Bis-cyclometalated Complexes

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Rosario Scopelliti, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Basile Curchod, Julien Edouard Frey

Investigations of blue phosphorescent organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) based on [Ir(2-(2,4-difluorophenyl)pyridine)(2)(picolinate)] (FIrPic) have pointed to the cleavage of the picolinate as a possible reason for device instability. We reproduced the ...

2012

Mixed quantum-classical dynamics with time-dependent external fields: A time-dependent density-functional-theory approach

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Basile Curchod

A mixed quantum-classical method aimed at the study of nonadiabatic dynamics in the presence of external electromagnetic fields is developed within the framework of time-dependent density functional theory. To this end, we use a trajectory-based descriptio ...

2010

Probing the Transition from Hydrophilic to Hydrophobic Solvation with Atomic Scale Resolution

Majed Chergui, Ivano Tavernelli, Van Thai Pham, Thomas James Penfold, Amal El Nahhas, Renske Marjan van der Veen, Frederico Alves Lima

Picosecond and femtosecond X-ray absorption spectroscopy is used to probe the changes of the solvent shell structure upon electron abstraction of aqueous iodide using an ultrashort laser pulse. The transient L-1,L-3 edge EXAFS at 50 ps time delay points to ...

2011