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20192026
most citedeT 1.0: an open source electronic structure program with emphasis on coupled cluster and multilevel methods

145 citations · 579 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

physics.optics2026

Strong light-matter interactions in hybrid polaritonic systems

Ben Johns, Andrea Schirato, Federico Toffoletti +12

Strong light-matter coupling gives rise to polaritons - hybrid excitations whose mixed photonic and matter character enables control over optical, electronic and chemical propertie…

physics.chem-ph2026

Unveiling the Molecular Driving Forces of Pollutant Extraction by Hydrophobic Eutectic Solvents

S. Gomez, U. Ali, A. Muroni +3

Hydrophobic eutectic solvents (HES) are emerging as sustainable alternatives to conventional organic solvents for the extraction of molecular pollutants from water. Yet, their sele…

physics.chem-ph2026

Restoring the Conical Intersection Topology using Convex Density Functional Theory

Federico Rossi, Tommaso Giovannini, Henrik Koch

Conical intersections are central to the description of photophysics and photochemistry. Nevertheless, in non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulations, they are fundamentally chall…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Beyond the Quantum Picture: The Electrodynamic Origin of Chiral Nanoplasmonics

Vasil Saroka, Lorenzo Cupellini, Nicolò Maccaferri +2

Chiral plasmonic nanostructures are rapidly emerging as ideal substrates for enantioselective sensing, chiral near-field engineering, and plasmon-assisted catalysis, owing to their…

physics.chem-ph2026

Multilevel DFT Response Theory

Alberto Barlini, Julien Bloino, Henrik Koch +1

We present a general computational protocol for the evaluation of extensive molecular response properties in complex environments within a polarizable quantum embedding framework.…

physics.chem-ph2025

Atomistic QM/Classical Modeling of Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption

Sveva Sodomaco, Piero Lafiosca, Tommaso Giovannini +1

We present a multiscale quantum mechanics/classical (QM/MM) approach for modeling surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) spectra of molecules adsorbed on plasmonic nanostruct…

physics.chem-ph2025

Vertical Excitation Energies of Embedded Systems: The Vertical Excitation Model (VEM) within Polarizable QM/MM

Chiara Sepali, Piero Lafiosca, Linda Goletto +2

Polarizable Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM) approaches based on fluctuating charges and dipoles (QM/FQ(F)) are formulated within the state-specific Vertical Excita…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

eT 2.0: An efficient open-source molecular electronic structure program

Sarai Dery Folkestad, Eirik F. Kjønstad, Alexander C. Paul +34

The eT program is an open-source electronic structure program with emphasis on performance and modularity. As its name suggests, the program features extensive coupled cluster capa…

physics.app-ph2025

Layered Bimetal Nanoporous Platforms for SERS Sensing

Yanqiu Zou, Anastasiia Sapunova, Tommaso Giovannini +15

Nanoporous metals are extensively investigated as platforms for applications in plasmonics. They present high surface areas and strong local electric fields that can be tuned at di…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 2 cited

plasmonX: an Open-Source Code for Nanoplasmonics

Tommaso Giovannini, Pablo Grobas Illobre, Piero Lafiosca +4

We present the first public release of plasmonX, a novel open-source code for simulating the plasmonic response of complex nanostructures. The code supports both fully atomistic an…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 2 cited

Ultrafast interband transitions in nanoporous gold metamaterial

Tlek Tapani, Jonas M. Pettersson, Nils Henriksson +9

Nanoporous metals have emerged as promising functional architectures due to their tunable optical and electronic properties, high surface areas, and versatile use in real-life appl…

quant-ph2025

Quantum Dynamics of Dissipative Polarizable Media

Frank Ernesto Quintela Rodriguez, Piero Lafiosca, Tommaso Giovannini +1

Classical polarizable approaches have become the gold standard for simulating complex systems and processes in the condensed phase. These methods describe intrinsically dissipative…

physics.chem-ph2024

Mixed Atomistic-Implicit Quantum/Classical Approach to Molecular Nanoplasmonics

Pablo Grobas Illobre, Piero Lafiosca, Luca Bonatti +2

A multiscale QM/classical approach is presented, that is able to model the optical properties of complex nanostructures composed of a molecular system adsorbed on metal nanoparticl…

physics.chem-ph2024

Fully Polarizable Multiconfigurational Self-consistent Field/Fluctuating Charge Approach

Chiara Sepali, Linda Goletto, Piero Lafiosca +3

A multiscale model based on the coupling of the multiconfigurational self-consistent field (MCSCF) method and the classical atomistic polarizable Fluctuating Charges (FQ) force fie…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Atomistic Multiscale Modeling of Colloidal Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Luca Nicoli, Sveva Sodomaco, Piero Lafiosca +2

A novel fully atomistic multiscale classical approach to model the optical response of solvated real-size plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) is presented. The model is based on the coup…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Real-Time Formulation of Atomistic Electromagnetic Models for Plasmonics

Piero Lafiosca, Luca Nicoli, Silvio Pipolo +3

Investigating nanoplasmonics using time-dependent approaches permits shedding light on the dynamic optical properties of plasmonic structures, which are intrinsically connected wit…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 10 cited

Linear Response Properties of Solvated Systems: A Computational Study

Linda Goletto, Sara Gómez, Josefine H. Andersen +2

We present a computational study of static and dynamic linear polarizabilities in solution. We use different theoretical approaches to describe solvent effects, ranging from quantu…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 18 cited

Assessing the Quality of QM/MM Approaches to Describe Vacuo-to-water Solvatochromic Shifts

Luca Nicoli, Tommaso Giovannini, Chiara Cappelli

The performance of different Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics embedding models to compute vacuo-to-water solvatochromic shifts are investigated. In particular, both non-polari…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 48 cited

Strong coupling in chiral cavities: nonperturbative framework for enantiomer discrimination

Rosario R. Riso, Laura Grazioli, Enrico Ronca +2

The development of efficient techniques to distinguish mirror images of chiral molecules (enantiomers) is very important in both chemistry and physics. Enantiomers share most molec…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 59 cited

Strong coupling between localized surface plasmons and molecules by coupled cluster theory

Jacopo Fregoni, Tor S. Haugland, Silvio Pipolo +3

Plasmonic nanocavities enable the confinement of molecules and electromagnetic fields within nano-metric volumes. As a consequence, the molecules experience a remarkably strong int…

physics.comp-ph2021★ 32 cited

Fully Atomistic Modeling of Realistic Plasmonic Materials: Assessing the Performance of Iterative Solvers

Piero Lafiosca, Tommaso Giovannini, Michele Benzi +1

The fully atomistic modeling of real-size plasmonic nanostructures is computationally demanding, therefore most calculations are limited to small-to-medium sized systems. However,…

physics.chem-ph2020

Combining Multilevel Hartree Fock and Multilevel Coupled Cluster with Molecular Mechanics: a Study of Electronic Excitations in Solutions

Linda Goletto, Tommaso Giovannini, Sarai D. Folkestad +1

We investigate the coupling of different quantum-embedding approaches with a third molecular-mechanics layer, which can be either polarizable or non-polarizable. In particular, suc…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 41 cited

Multilevel Density Functional Theory

Gioia Marrazzini, Tommaso Giovannini, Marco Scavino +3

We introduce a novel density-based multilevel approach in density functional theory. In this multilevel density functional theory (MLDFT), the system is partitioned in an active an…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 21 cited

Energy-Based Molecular Orbital Localization in a Specific Spatial Region

Tommaso Giovannini, Henrik Koch

We present a novel energy-based localization procedure able to localize molecular orbitals into specific spatial regions. The method is applied to several cases including both conj…