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20192026
most citedA complete ab initio view of Orbach and Raman spin-lattice relaxation in a Dysprosium coordination compound

227 citations · 456 across the 33 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Multireference Density Matrix Embedding for Spin-Phonon Relaxation

Shreya Verma, Antonio L. Mariano, Matthew R. Hermes +3

Spin-phonon coupling governs magnetic relaxation in numerous systems including single-molecule magnets and molecular spin qubits. In most cases, the accurate prediction of spin rel…

quant-ph2026

Triangulene-based diradicals as a blueprint for molecular quantum platforms with optical addressability and long spin coherence times

Arup Sarkar, Cathal Hogan, Conor Ryan +2

The identification of molecules that combine long spin coherence times and efficient spin-optical interfaces, ideally at room temperature, is pivotal towards the development of mol…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Maximizing the magnetic anisotropy of Dy complexes by fine tuning organic ligands: A systematic multireference high-throughput exploration of over 30k molecules

Lion Frangoulis, Lorenzo A. Mariano. Vu Ha Anh Nguyen, Zahra Khatibi +1

The design of the coordination environment of magnetic ions is key to achieving properties such as large magnetic anisotropy and slow magnetic relaxation, but a systematic explorat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

A first-principles linear response theory for open quantum systems and its application to Orbach and direct magnetic relaxation in Ln-based coordination polymers

Mikolaj Żychowicz, Jakub J. Zakrzewski, Szymon Chorazy +1

Single-Molecule Magnets (SMMs) exhibit slow magnetic relaxation as a result of axial magnetic anisotropy inhibiting spin-phonon transitions. In order to establish a direct link bet…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Raman relaxation in Yb(III) molecular qubits: non-trivial correlations between spin-phonon coupling and molecular structure

Giacomo Sansone, Lorenzo A. Mariano, Stefano Carretta +2

The coordination complexes of Yb(III) exhibit some of the longest spin coherence times among 4f compounds, making them a promising platform for molecular quantum technologies. Whil…

quant-ph2026

Extending spin-lattice relaxation theory to three-phonon processes

Nilanjana Chanda, Alessandro Lunghi

Spin-lattice relaxation theory has been developed over almost a century, but some cardinal assumptions on the nature of the interactions involved have never been fully verified. Th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Efficient training of generative models from multireference simulations and its application to the design of Dy complexes with large magnetic anisotropy

Zahra Khatibi, Lorenzo A. Mariano, Lion Frangoulis +1

Generative machine learning models can potentially provide direct access to novel and relevant portions of the full chemical space, overcoming the cost of systematic sampling. Howe…

quant-ph2026

On the challenge of simulating dipolar contributions to spin relaxation with generalized cluster correlation expansion methods

Conor Ryan, Alessandro Lunghi

The study of spin decoherence is often performed by assuming that spin-phonon interactions lead to relaxation at high temperatures, and spin-spin dipolar interactions instead contr…

quant-ph2025

Fourth-order quantum master equations reveal that spin-phonon decoherence undercuts long magnetization relaxation times in single-molecule magnets

Alessandro Lunghi

Spin-phonon interaction is known to drive magnetic relaxation in solid-state systems, but little evidence is available on how it affects coherence time. Here we extend fourth-order…

quant-ph2025

A multireference picture of electronic excited states in vanadyl and copper tetraphenyl porphyrin molecular qubits

Arup Sarkar, Alessandro Lunghi

The nature of electronic excited states has a deep impact on the dynamics of molecular spins, but remains poorly understood and characterized. Here we carry out a thorough multicon…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Spin decoherence in molecular crystals: nuclear v.s. electronic spin baths

Conor Ryan, Valerio Briganti, Cathal Hogan +2

The loss of information about the relative phase between two quantum states, known as decoherence, strongly limits resolution in electron paramagnetic spectroscopy and hampers the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Generating new coordination compounds via multireference simulations, genetic algorithms and machine learning: the case of Co(II) molecular magnets

Lion Frangoulis, Zahra Khatibi, Lorenzo A. Mariano +1

The design of coordination compounds with target properties often requires years of continuous feedback loop between theory, simulations and experiments. In the case of magnetic mo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

The spin-phonon relaxation mechanism of single-molecule magnets in the presence of strong exchange coupling

Sourav Mondal, Julia Netz, David Hunger +5

Magnetic relaxation in coordination compounds is largely dominated by the interaction of the spin with phonons. Large zero-field splitting and exchange coupling values have been em…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

The Mechanism of Spin-Phonon Relaxation in Endohedral Metallofullene Single Molecule Magnets

Tanu Sharma, Rupesh Kumar Tiwari, Sourav Dey +3

This study presents the first-ever investigation of spin-phonon coupling mechanisms in fullerene-based single-molecule magnets (SMMs) using ab initio CASSCF combined with DFT calcu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

A machine-learning framework for accelerating spin-lattice relaxation simulations

Valerio Briganti, Alessandro Lunghi

Molecular and lattice vibrations are able to couple to the spin of electrons and lead to their relaxation and decoherence. Ab initio simulations have played a fundamental role in s…

physics.chem-ph2024

Charting new regions of Cobalt's chemical space with maximally large magnetic anisotropy: A computational high-throughput study

Lorenzo A. Mariano, Vu Ha Anh Nguyen, Valerio Briganti +1

Magnetic anisotropy slows down magnetic relaxation and plays a prominent role in the design of permanent magnets. Coordination compounds of Co(II) in particular exhibit large magne…

physics.chem-ph2024

The role of electronic excited states in the spin-lattice relaxation of spin-1/2 molecules

Lorenzo A. Mariano, Vu Ha Anh Nguyen, Jonatan B. Petersen +5

Magnetic resonance is a prime method for the study of chemical and biological structures and their dynamical processes. The interpretation of these experiments relies on considerin…

physics.chem-ph2023

Spin-vibronic dynamics in open-shell systems beyond the spin Hamiltonian formalism

Lorenzo A. Mariano, Sourav Mondal, Alessandro Lunghi

Vibronic coupling has a dramatic influence over a large number of molecular processes, ranging from photo-chemistry, to spin relaxation and electronic transport. The simulation of…

physics.comp-ph2023★ 7 cited

Efficient Generation of Stable Linear Machine-Learning Force Fields with Uncertainty-Aware Active Learning

Valerio Briganti, Alessandro Lunghi

Machine-learning force fields enable an accurate and universal description of the potential energy surface of molecules and materials on the basis of a training set of ab initio da…

quant-ph2022★ 19 cited

A self-consistent field approach for the variational quantum eigensolver: orbital optimization goes adaptive

Aaron Fitzpatrick, Anton Nykänen, N. Walter Talarico +4

We present a self consistent field approach (SCF) within the Adaptive Derivative-Assembled Problem-Tailored Ansatz Variational Quantum Eigensolver (ADAPT-VQE) framework for efficie…

quant-ph2022★ 1 cited

Spin-phonon decoherence in solid-state paramagnetic defects from first principles

Sourav Mondal, Alessandro Lunghi

Paramagnetic defects in diamond and hexagonal boron nitride possess a unique combination of spin and optical properties that make them prototypical solid-state qubits. Despite the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Unravelling the contributions to spin-lattice relaxation in Kramers single-molecule magnets

Sourav Mondal, Alessandro Lunghi

The study of how spin interacts with lattice vibrations and relaxes to equilibrium provides unique insights on its chemical environment and the relation between electronic structur…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 3 cited

Spin-Phonon Relaxation in Magnetic Molecules: Theory, Predictions and Insights

Alessandro Lunghi

Magnetic molecules have played a central role in the development of magnetism and coordination chemistry and their study keeps leading innovation in cutting-edge scientific fields…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 49 cited

Predicting tensorial molecular properties with equivariant machine-learning models

Vu Ha Anh Nguyen, Alessandro Lunghi

Embedding molecular symmetries into machine-learning models is key for efficient learning of chemico-physical scalar properties, but little evidence on how to extend the same strat…