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Chiral control of spin-crossover dynamics in Fe (II) complexes

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Photo- and thermally-induced electronic and structural dynamics in perovskites and transition metal oxides

In this thesis, we exploited optical and X-ray pump-probe methods in a synergistic approach to study the interplay of the electronic, spin and structural degrees of freedom in two class of complex systems relevant for solar energy conversion applications: ...

EPFL2021

Correlation between Optical Activity and the Helical Molecular Orbitals of Allene and Cumulenes

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Marc Hamilton Folkmann Garner

Helical frontier molecular orbitals (MOs) appear in disubstituted allenes and even-n cumulenes. Chiral molecules are optically active, but while these molecules are single-handed chiral, p-orbitals of both helicities are present. Here we computationally ex ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Twisted Bilayer Graphene Quantum Dots for Chiral Nanophotonics

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is a two-dimensional chiral material whose optical activity is remarkably strong for its atomic thickness. While the chiral optical properties of TBG are currently well understood, the optical activity of quantum dots (QDs) m ...

2020

Generic phase diagram of spin relaxation in solids and the Loschmidt echo

Ferenc Simon

The spin relaxation time in solids is determined by several competing energy scales and processes, and distinct methods are called for to analyze the various regimes. We present a stochastic model for the spin dynamics in solids which is equivalent to solv ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Absolute Structure from Scanning Electron Microscopy

Philip Johannes Walter Moll

The absence of centrosymmetry in chiral and polar crystal structures is the reason for many technical relevant physical properties like optical birefringence or ferroelectricity. Other chirality related properties that are actually intensively investigated ...

Nature Research2020

Radial Spin Texture of the Weyl Fermions in Chiral Tellurium

Philippe Bugnon, Marco Grioni, Majed Chergui, Oleg Yazyev, Luca Moreschini, Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Alberto Crepaldi, Simon Karl Moser, Luc Testa, Mauro Fanciulli, Edoardo Martino, Gianmarco Gatti, Daniel Gosalbez Martinez, Silvan Dino Marcos Roth, Serhii Polishchuk, Michele Puppin

Trigonal tellurium, a small-gap semiconductor with pronounced magneto-electric and magneto-optical responses, is among the simplest realizations of a chiral crystal. We have studied by spin- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy its unconventional ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Ultrafast Intersystem Crossing and Structural Dynamics of [Pt(ppy)(mu-(t)Bu(2)pz)](2)

Majed Chergui, Lars-Hendrik Mewes, Rebecca Ann Ingle

Intersystem crossing (ISC) rates of transition-metal complexes are determined by the complex interplay of a molecule's electronic and structural dynamics. To broaden our understanding of these key factors, we investigate the case of the prototypical d(8)-d ...

2020

Energy relaxation pathways between light-matter states revealed by coherent two-dimensional spectroscopy

Majed Chergui, Lars-Hendrik Mewes, Rebecca Ann Ingle

Coupling matter excitations to electromagnetic modes inside nano-scale optical resonators leads to the formation of hybrid light-matter states, so-called polaritons, allowing the controlled manipulation of material properties. Here, we investigate the phot ...

NATURE RESEARCH2020

Spin-dependent charge transfer at chiral electrodes probed by magnetic resonance

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Christophe Roussel, Felix Blumenschein, Mika Antero Tamski

Chirality-induced spin selectivity is evidenced by exciting the spin resonance of radicals in an electrochemical cell where the working electrode is covered with a chiral self-assembled monolayer. Because the electron transfer to and from the paramagnetic ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Solid-state to solution helicity inversion of pseudotetrahedral chiral copper(II) complexes with 2,4-dihalo-salicylaldiminate ligands

Rosario Scopelliti

The enantiopure Schiff bases (R or S)-N-1-( phenyl)ethyl-2,4-X-1,X2(-)salicylaldimine (X-1, X-2 = Cl, Br, I) coordinate to copper(II) and provide pseudotetrahedral bis[(S or R)-N-1-(phenyl)ethyl-(2,4-X-1,X-2-salicylaldiminato.2N,O)]-./.-Cu(II) (kappa N-2,O ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Ultralong Spin Lifetime in Light Alkali Atom Doped Graphene

László Forró, Bálint Náfrádi, Péter Szirmai, Bence Gábor Márkus

Today's great challenges of energy and informational technologies are addressed with a singular compound, Li-and Na-doped few-layer graphene. All that is impossible for graphite (homogeneous and high-level Na doping) and unstable for single-layer graphene ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Chiral fermion asymmetry in high-energy plasma simulations

Jennifer Waltraud Schober

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a quantum relativistic effect that describes the appearance of an additional electric current along a magnetic field. It is caused by an asymmetry between the number densities of left- and right-handed fermions, which ca ...

2020