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20202026
most citedDirect observation of geometric phase in dynamics around a conical intersection

66 citations · 202 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

quant-ph2026

Symmetry conservation with Trotterization and Quantum Phase Estimation

Edith Leal-Sánchez, Fanny Vain, Jong-Kwon Ha +1

Quantum algorithms for quantum chemistry and other many-body fermionic systems work by expressing the Hamiltonian in a basis of qubits and fragmenting the Hamiltonian into a sum of…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Analog Quantum Simulation of Coupled Electron-Nuclear Dynamics in Molecules

Jong-Kwon Ha, Ryan J. MacDonell

Quantum computing has the potential to reduce the computational cost required for quantum dynamics simulations. However, existing quantum algorithms for coupled electron-nuclear dy…

quant-ph2024★ 22 cited

Experimental Quantum Simulation of Chemical Dynamics

T. Navickas, R. J. MacDonell, C. H. Valahu +10

Accurate simulation of dynamical processes in molecules and reactions is among the most challenging problems in quantum chemistry. Quantum computers promise efficient chemical simu…

quant-ph2024★ 8 cited

Simulating open-system molecular dynamics on analog quantum computers

V. C. Olaya-Agudelo, B. Stewart, C. H. Valahu +6

Interactions of molecules with their environment influence the course and outcome of almost all chemical reactions. However, classical computers struggle to accurately simulate com…

quant-ph2022★ 66 cited

Direct observation of geometric phase in dynamics around a conical intersection

Christophe H. Valahu, Vanessa C. Olaya-Agudelo, Ryan J. MacDonell +9

Conical intersections are ubiquitous in chemistry and physics, often governing processes such as light harvesting, vision, photocatalysis, and chemical reactivity. They act as funn…

quant-ph2022★ 26 cited

Predicting molecular vibronic spectra using time-domain analog quantum simulation

Ryan J. MacDonell, Tomas Navickas, Tim F. Wohlers-Reichel +8

Spectroscopy is one of the most accurate probes of the molecular world. However, predicting molecular spectra accurately is computationally difficult because of the presence of ent…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 6 cited

A comparison of partial atomic charges for electronically excited states

Ryan J. MacDonell, Serguei Patchkovskii, Michael S. Schuurman

Partial atomic charges are a useful and intuitive concept for understanding molecular properties and chemical reaction mechanisms, showing how changes in molecular geometry can aff…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 8 cited

Resolving Competing Conical Intersection Pathways: Time-Resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of trans-1,3-Butadiene

Issaka Seidu, Simon P. Neville, Ryan J. MacDonell +1

Time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy is emerging as a uniquely powerful tool to probe coupled electronic-nuclear dynamics in photo-excited molecules. Theoretical studies to…

quant-ph2020★ 64 cited

Analog quantum simulation of chemical dynamics

Ryan J. MacDonell, Claire E. Dickerson, Clare J. T. Birch +5

Ultrafast chemical reactions are difficult to simulate because they involve entangled, many-body wavefunctions whose computational complexity grows rapidly with molecular size. In…