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20182026
most citedMachine learning for electronically excited states of molecules

402 citations · 1.7k across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Transferable excited-state dynamics enable screening of fluorescent protein chromophores

Rhyan Barrett, Sophia Wesely, Julia Westermayr

Transferable excited-state dynamics offer a route to efficient screening of photophysical behavior across molecular systems, but conventional nonadiabatic simulations remain prohib…

physics.comp-ph2026

Hierarchical generative modeling for the design of multi-component systems

Rhyan Barrett, Robin Curth, Julia Westermayr

The functionality of catalysts, enzymes, and supramolecular assemblies emerges not from individual molecules alone, but from the subtle interplay between multiple components arrang…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

Machine learning for smell: Ordinal odor strength prediction of molecular perfumery components

Peter Fichtelmann, Julia Westermayr

Predicting olfactory perception directly from molecular structure is central to fragrance design that plays a role in a wide range of industries, such as perfumery, food and bevera…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Statistics makes a difference: Machine learning adsorption dynamics of functionalized cyclooctine on Si(001) at DFT accuracy

Hendrik Weiske, Rhyan Barrett, Ralf Tonner-Zech +2

The interpretation of experiments on reactive semiconductor surfaces requires statistically significant sampling of molecular dynamics, but conventional ab initio methods are limit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 203 cited

A practical guide to machine learning interatomic potentials -- Status and future

Ryan Jacobs, Dane Morgan, Siamak Attarian +27

The rapid development and large body of literature on machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) can make it difficult to know how to proceed for researchers who are not exper…

physics.comp-ph2025★ 3 cited

Incorporating Long-Range Interactions via the Multipole Expansion into Ground and Excited-State Molecular Simulations

Rhyan Barrett, Johannes C. B. Dietschreit, Julia Westermayr

Simulating long-range interactions remains a significant challenge for molecular machine learning potentials due to the need to accurately capture interactions over large spatial r…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 4 cited

Transferable Machine Learning Potential X-MACE for Excited States using Integrated DeepSets

Rhyan Barrett, Christoph Ortner, Julia Westermayr

Conical intersections serve as critical gateways in photochemical reactions, enabling rapid nonradiative transitions between potential energy surfaces that underpin fundamental pro…

cs.CY2025★ 1 cited

Artificial intelligence for objective assessment of acrobatic movements: How to apply machine learning for identifying tumbling elements in cheer sports

Sophia Wesely, Ella Hofer, Robin Curth +4

Over the past four decades, cheerleading has evolved from a sideline activity at major sporting events into a professional, competitive sport with growing global popularity. Evalua…

physics.chem-ph2025

Excited-state nonadiabatic dynamics in explicit solvent using machine learned interatomic potentials

Maximilian X. Tiefenbacher, Brigitta Bachmair, Cheng Giuseppe Chen +4

Excited-state nonadiabatic simulations with quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) are essential to understand photoinduced processes in explicit environments. However, the…

math.NA2024

Parameterizing Intersecting Surfaces via Invariants

Timon S. Gutleb, Rhyan Barrett, Julia Westermayr +1

We introduce and analyze numerical companion matrix methods for the reconstruction of hypersurfaces with crossings from smooth interpolants given unordered or, without loss of gene…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 23 cited

Reinforcement learning for traversing chemical structure space: Optimizing transition states and minimum energy paths of molecules

Rhyan Barrett, Julia Westermayr

In recent years, deep learning has made remarkable strides, surpassing human capabilities in tasks like strategy games, and it has found applications in complex domains, including…

physics.comp-ph2023★ 9 cited

Decoding Energy Decomposition Analysis: Machine-Learned Insights on the Impact of the Density Functional on the Bonding Analysis

Toni Oestereich, Ralf Tonner-Zech, Julia Westermayr

The concept of chemical bonding is a crucial aspect of chemistry that aids in understanding the complexity and reactivity of molecules and materials. However, the interpretation of…

physics.chem-ph2023

Machine learning interatomic potentials for reactive hydrogen dynamics at metal surfaces based on iterative refinement of reaction probabilities

Wojciech G. Stark, Julia Westermayr, Oscar A. Douglas-Gallardo +3

Reactive chemistry of molecular hydrogen at surfaces, notably dissociative sticking and hydrogen evolution, plays a crucial role in energy storage and fuel cells. Theoretical studi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 3 cited

Machine learning for accelerated bandgap prediction in strain-engineered quaternary III-V semiconductors

Badal Mondal, Julia Westermayr, Ralf Tonner-Zech

Quaternary III-V semiconductors are one of the major promising material classes in optoelectronics. The bandgap and its character, direct or indirect, are the most important fundam…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 79 cited

High-throughput property-driven generative design of functional organic molecules

Julia Westermayr, Joe Gilkes, Rhyan Barrett +1

The design of molecules and materials with tailored properties is challenging, as candidate molecules must satisfy multiple competing requirements that are often difficult to measu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 1 cited

Long-range dispersion-inclusive machine learning potentials for structure search and optimization of hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces

Julia Westermayr, Shayantan Chaudhuri, Andreas Jeindl +2

The computational prediction of the structure and stability of hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces provides important insights into the measurable properties of electronic thin fil…

physics.chem-ph2022

NQCDynamics.jl: A Julia Package for Nonadiabatic Quantum Classical Molecular Dynamics in the Condensed Phase

James Gardner, Oscar A. Douglas-Gallardo, Wojciech G. Stark +4

Accurate and efficient methods to simulate nonadiabatic and quantum nuclear effects in high-dimensional and dissipative systems are crucial for the prediction of chemical dynamics…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 50 cited

BuRNN: Buffer Region Neural Network Approach for Polarizable-Embedding Neural Network / Molecular Mechanics Simulations

Bettina Lier, Peter Poliak, Philipp Marquetand +2

Hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations have advanced the field of computational chemistry tremendously. However, they require the partitioning of a system…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 61 cited

Roaming leads to amino acid photodamage: A deep learning study of tyrosine

Julia Westermayr, Michael Gastegger, Dora Vörös +4

Although the amino acid tyrosine is among the main building blocks of life, its photochemistry is not fully understood. Traditional theoretical simulations are neither accurate eno…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 67 cited

Physically inspired deep learning of molecular excitations and photoemission spectra

Julia Westermayr, Reinhard J. Maurer

Modern functional materials consist of large molecular building blocks with significant chemical complexity which limits spectroscopic property prediction with accurate first-princ…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 203 cited

Perspective on integrating machine learning into computational chemistry and materials science

Julia Westermayr, Michael Gastegger, Kristof T. Schütt +1

Machine learning (ML) methods are being used in almost every conceivable area of electronic structure theory and molecular simulation. In particular, ML has become firmly establish…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 72 cited

Deep Learning for UV Absorption Spectra with SchNarc: First Steps Towards Transferability in Chemical Compound Space

Julia Westermayr, Philipp Marquetand

Machine learning (ML) has shown to advance the research field of quantum chemistry in almost any possible direction and has recently also entered the excited states to investigate…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 402 cited

Machine learning for electronically excited states of molecules

Julia Westermayr, Philipp Marquetand

Electronically excited states of molecules are at the heart of photochemistry, photophysics, as well as photobiology and also play a role in material science. Their theoretical des…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 64 cited

Machine learning and excited-state molecular dynamics

Julia Westermayr, Philipp Marquetand

Machine learning is employed at an increasing rate in the research field of quantum chemistry. While the majority of approaches target the investigation of chemical systems in thei…