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20202026
most citedThe DIRAC code for relativistic molecular calculations

366 citations · 509 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

physics.chem-ph2026★ 1 cited

Vibrational infrared and Raman spectra of the methanol molecule with equivariant neural-network property surfaces

Ayaki Sunaga, Albert P. Bartók, Edit Mátyus

Electric dipole and polarizability surfaces are developed for the methanol (CHOH) molecule using ab initio electronic structure data, computed at the CCSD/aug-cc-pVTZ level of…

physics.atom-ph2026

Excluding Hypothetical Light Boson Interpretation of Yb King Plot Nonlinearity with the Isotope Shift Measurement

Taiki Ishiyama, Koki Ono, Reiji Asano +6

We present precision spectroscopy and isotope shift measurement of the clock transition in neutral ytterbium () atoms. By revealing a…

physics.atom-ph2025

Rotational Splittings in Diatomic Molecules of Interest to Searches for New Physics

Ayaki Sunaga, Timo Fleig

Diatomic molecules with an energetically low-lying state are attractive platforms to detect new physics beyond the Standard Model, such as parity- and time-reversal violat…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 2 cited

Exact quantum dynamics of methanol: full-dimensional ab initio potential energy surface of spectroscopic quality and variational vibrational states

Ayaki Sunaga, Tibor Győri, Gábor Czakó +1

The methanol molecule is a sensitive probe of astrochemistry, astrophysics, and fundamental physics. The first-principles elucidation and prediction of its rotation-torsional-vibra…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 3 cited

Orders-of-magnitude improvement in precision spectroscopy of an inner-shell orbital clock transition in neutral ytterbium

Taiki Ishiyama, Koki Ono, Hokuto Kawase +6

An inner-shell orbital clock transition in neutral ytterbium atoms has attracted much attention as a new optical frequency standard a…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 2 cited

Theoretical determination of the ionization potentials of ScF, YF, LaF and AcF

Aleksandra A. Kyuberis, Lukas F. Pasteka, Ephraim Eliav +4

We present a comprehensive theoretical study of the ionization potentials of the MF (M = Sc, Y, La, Ac) molecules using the state-of-the-art relativistic coupled cluster approach w…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 1 cited

Strong parity-violation effects induced by large-amplitude motions: A quantum-dynamics study of substituted chiral methanols

Ayaki Sunaga

An enhanced mechanism is proposed for the large-amplitude-motion-induced parity-violating frequency by integrating the exact quantum dynamics method with the relativistic electroni…

physics.chem-ph2024

Hyperfine rovibrational states of H in a weak external magnetic field

Gustavo Avila, Ayaki Sunaga, Stanislav Komorovsky +1

Rovibrational energies, wave functions, and Raman transition moments are reported for the lowest-energy states of the H molecular ion including the magnetic couplings of the…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 8 cited

Variational Vibrational States of Methanol (12D)

Ayaki Sunaga, Gustavo Avila, Edit Matyus

Full-dimensional (12D) vibrational states of the methanol molecule (CHOH) have been computed using the GENIUSH-Smolyak approach and the potential energy surface from Qu and Bow…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 2 cited

Measuring the nuclear magnetic quadrupole moment of optically trapped ytterbium atoms in the metastable state

Ayaki Sunaga, Yuiki Takahashi, Amar Vutha +1

We propose a scheme to measure a nuclear magnetic quadrupole moment (MQM), a CP-violating electromagnetic moment that appears in the nuclear sector, using the long-lived me…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 13 cited

Accurate theoretical determination of the ionization potentials of CaF, SrF, and BaF

A. A. Kyuberis, L. F. Pasteka, E. Eliav +6

We present a comprehensive theoretical study of the ionization potentials of the MF (M= Ca, Sr, Ba) molecules using the state-of-the-art relativistic coupled cluster approach with…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 24 cited

Observation of an Inner-Shell Orbital Clock Transition in Neutral Ytterbium Atoms

Taiki Ishiyama, Koki Ono, Tetsushi Takano +2

We observe a weakly allowed optical transition of atomic ytterbium from the ground state to the metastable state for all five bosonic and two fermionic iso…

physics.chem-ph2022

Enhancement of parity-violating energy difference of CHFClBr, CHFClI, and CHFBrI by breaking the cancellation among valence orbital contributions

Naoya Kuroda, Ayaki Sunaga, Masato Senami

The enhancement of the parity-violating energy difference (PVED) by electronic excitation is studied for H ( O, S, Se, Te), CHFClBr, CHFClI, and CHFBrI. To clarify the…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 53 cited

4-component relativistic Hamiltonian with effective QED potentials for molecular calculations

Ayaki Sunaga, Maen Salman, Trond Saue

We report the implementation of effective QED potentials for all-electron 4-component relativistic molecular calculations using the DIRAC code. The potentials are also available fo…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 2 cited

Spectroscopic and Electric Properties of the TaO Molecule Ion for the Search of New Physics: A Platform for Identification and State Control

Ayaki Sunaga, Timo Fleig

The TaO cation is an attractive molecular species to search for parity- and time-reversal-violating interactions, in particular of hadronic origin. For the spectroscopic detect…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 12 cited

Enhancement of parity-violating energy difference of HX molecules by electronic excitation

Naoya Kuroda, Takumi Oho, Ayaki Sunaga +1

The parity-violating energy difference (PVED) between two enantiomers of a chiral molecule is caused by the weak interaction. Because of the smallness of the PVED, nonzero PVED is…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 20 cited

Towards highly accurate calculations of parity violation in chiral molecules: relativistic coupled-cluster theory including QED-effects

Ayaki Sunaga, Trond Saue

Parity-violating energies of the X = O, S, Se, Te, Po) molecules are reported, calculated as analytical expectation values at the relativistic coupled-cluster sin…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 366 cited

The DIRAC code for relativistic molecular calculations

Trond Saue, Radovan Bast, Andre Severo Pereira Gomes +24

DIRAC is a freely distributed general-purpose program system for 1-, 2- and 4-component relativistic molecular calculations at the level of Hartree--Fock, Kohn--Sham (including ran…