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physics.chem-ph2026★ 1 cited

Analytical Nuclear Gradients for State-Averaged Configuration Interaction Singles Variants: Application to Conical Intersections

Takashi Tsuchimochi

We derive analytical nuclear gradients for state-averaged orbital-optimized configuration interaction singles (SACIS) and its spin-projected extension (SAECIS), enabling efficient…

physics.chem-ph2026

Deep learning of committor and explainable artificial intelligence analysis for identifying reaction coordinates

Toshifumi Mori, Kei-ichi Okazaki, Kang Kim +1

In complex molecular systems, the reaction coordinate (RC) that characterizes transition pathways is essential to understand underlying molecular mechanisms. This review surveys a…

physics.chem-ph2026★ 1 cited

Leveraging configuration interaction singles for qualitative descriptions of ground and excited states: state-averaging, linear-response, and spin-projection

Takashi Tsuchimochi, Benjamin Mokhtar

While configuration interaction singles (CIS) provides a computationally efficient description of excited states, it systematically overestimates excitation energies and performs p…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

Deep learning of committor for ion dissociation and interpretable analysis of solvent effects using atom-centered symmetry functions

Kenji Okada, Kazushi Okada, Kei-ichi Okazaki +3

The association and dissociation of ion pairs in water are fundamental to physical chemistry, yet their reaction coordinates are complex, involving not only interionic distance but…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 6 cited

Double Configuration Interaction Singles: Scalable and size-intensive approach for orbital relaxation in excited states and bond-dissociation

Takashi Tsuchimochi

We present a novel theoretical scheme for orbital relaxation in configuration interaction singles (CIS) based on a perturbative treatment of its electronic Hessian, whose analytica…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 4 cited

Investigating the hyperparameter space of deep neural network models for reaction coordinates

Kyohei Kawashima, Takumi Sato, Kei-ichi Okazaki +3

Identifying reaction coordinates (RCs) is a key to understanding the mechanism of reactions in complex systems. Deep neural network (DNN) and machine learning approaches have becom…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 5 cited

Unveiling interatomic distances influencing the reaction coordinates in alanine dipeptide isomerization: An explainable deep learning approach

Kazushi Okada, Takuma Kikutsuji, Kei-ichi Okazaki +3

The present work shows that the free energy landscape associated with alanine dipeptide isomerization can be effectively represented by specific interatomic distances without expli…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 14 cited

Pathway selectivity in time-resolved spectroscopy using two-photon coincidence counting with quantum entangled photons

Yuta Fujihashi, Akihito Ishizaki, Ryosuke Shimizu

Ultrafast optical spectroscopy is a powerful technique for studying the dynamic processes of molecular systems in condensed phases. However, in molecular systems containing many dy…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 1 cited

A theory of chemical Reactions in biomolecules in solution: generalized Langevin mode analysis (GLMA)

Fumio Hirata

The generalized Langevin mode analysis (GLMA) is applied to chemical reactions in biomolecules in solution. The theory sees a chemical reaction in solution as a barrier crossing pr…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 14 cited

Probing exciton dynamics with spectral selectivity through the use of quantum entangled photons

Yuta Fujihashi, Kuniyuki Miwa, Masahiro Higashi +1

Quantum light is increasingly recognized as a promising resource for developing optical measurement techniques. Particular attention has been paid to enhancing the precision of the…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 47 cited

Explaining reaction coordinates of alanine dipeptide isomerization obtained from deep neural networks using Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

Takuma Kikutsuji, Yusuke Mori, Kei-ichi Okazaki +3

A method for obtaining appropriate reaction coordinates is required to identify transition states distinguishing product and reactant in complex molecular systems. Recently, abunda…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 61 cited

The initial charge separation step in oxygenic photosynthesis

Yusuke Yoneda, Eric A. Arsenault, Kaydren Orcutt +2

Photosystem II is crucial for life on Earth as it provides oxygen as a result of photoinduced electron transfer and water splitting reactions. The excited state dynamics of the pho…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 8 cited

Specific chemical bond relaxation unravelled by analysis of shake-up satellites in the oxygen single site double core hole spectrum of CO

Anthony Ferté, Francis Penent, Jérôme Palaudoux +7

We developed recently [A. Ferté, et al., J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11, 4359 (2020)] a method to compute single site double core hole (ssDCH or K) spectra. We refer to that method…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 13 cited

Achieving two-dimensional optical spectroscopy with temporal and spectral resolution using quantum entangled three photons

Yuta Fujihashi, Akihito Ishizaki

Recent advances in techniques for generating quantum light have stimulated research on novel spectroscopic measurements using quantum entangled photons. One such spectroscopy techn…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 14 cited

IR photofragmentation of the Phenyl Cation: Spectroscopy and Fragmentation Pathways

S. D. Wiersma, A. Candian, J. M. Bakker +5

We present the gas-phase infrared spectra of the phenyl cation, phenylium, in its perprotio CH and perdeutero CD forms, in the 260-1925 cm (5.2-38 m)…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 16 cited

Insights into photosynthetic energy transfer gained from free-energy structure: Coherent transport, incoherent hopping, and vibrational assistance revisited

Akihito Ishizaki, Graham R. Fleming

Giant strides in ultrashort laser pulse technology have enabled real-time observation of dynamical processes in complex molecular systems. Specifically, the discovery of oscillator…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 64 cited

Learning reaction coordinates via cross-entropy minimization: Application to alanine dipeptide

Yusuke Mori, Kei-ichi Okazaki, Toshifumi Mori +2

We propose a cross-entropy minimization method for finding the reaction coordinate from a large number of collective variables in complex molecular systems. This method is an exten…

physics.chem-ph2019★ 12 cited

Prerequisites for relevant spectral density and convergence of reduced density matrices at low temperatures

Akihito Ishizaki

Hierarchical equations of motion approach with the Drude-Lorentz spectral density has been widely employed in investigating quantum dissipative phenomena. However, it is often comp…

physics.chem-ph2018★ 30 cited

Intramolecular Vibrations Complement the Robustness of Primary Charge Separation in a Dimer Model of the Photosystem II Reaction Center

Yuta Fujihashi, Masahiro Higashi, Akihito Ishizaki

The energy conversion of oxygenic photosynthesis is triggered by primary charge separation in proteins at the photosystem II reaction center. Here, we investigate the impacts of th…

physics.chem-ph2018★ 27 cited

Control of Excitation Energy Transfer in Condensed Phase Molecular Systems by Floquet Engineering

Nguyen Thanh Phuc, Akihito Ishizaki

Excitation energy transfer (EET) is one of the most important processes in both natural and artificial chemical systems including, for example, photosynthetic complexes and organic…

physics.chem-ph2016★ 28 cited

Hyperfine coupling constants from internally contracted multireference perturbation theory

Toru Shiozaki, Takeshi Yanai

We present an accurate method for calculating hyperfine coupling constants (HFCCs) based on the complete active space second-order perturbation theory (CASPT2) with full internal c…

physics.chem-ph2016★ 5 cited

A screened automated structural search with semiempirical methods

Yukihiro Ota, Sergi Ruiz-Barragan, Masahiko Machida +1

We developed an interface program between a program suite for an automated search of chemical reaction pathways, GRRM, and a program package of semiempirical methods, MOPAC. A two-…

physics.chem-ph2016★ 22 cited

On the hierarchical parallelization of ab initio simulations

Sergi Ruiz-Barragan, Kazuya Ishimura, Motoyuki Shiga

A hierarchical parallelization has been implemented in a new unified code PIMD-SMASH for ab initio simulation where the replicas and the Born-Oppenheimer forces are parallelized. I…

physics.chem-ph2015★ 11 cited

Concatenated Composite Pulses Applied to Liquid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Masamitsu Bando, Tsubasa Ichikawa, Yasushi Kondo +3

The error-robust and short composite operations named ConCatenated Composite Pulses (CCCPs), developed as high-precision unitary operations in quantum information processing (QIP),…