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20062026
most citedImplicit solvation model for density-functional study of nanocrystal surfaces and reaction pathways

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72 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Revealing Wavelength- and Size-Dependent CO2 Reduction Selectivity via Operando Scanning Photo-Electrochemical Microscopy

Fatemeh Kiani, Milad Sabzehparvar, Priscila Vensaus +6

Controlling product selectivity in plasmonic catalysis, particularly in CO2 reduction (CO2R), remains a central unsolved challenge with direct implications for light-driven fuel an…

physics.chem-ph2026

Systematic Fine-Tuning of MACE Interatomic Potentials for Catalysis

Nima Karimitari, Jacob Clary, Derek Vigil-Fowler +3

Once trained, machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) provide a fast and accurate way to study catalytic reaction pathways, but their performance strongly depends on the tra…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Photogalvanic currents from first-principles real-time density-matrix dynamics

Junting Yu, Andrew Grieder, Jacopo Simoni +3

The photogalvanic effect is the generation of a second-order direct current by illumination of a non-centrosymmetric material. In this work, we develop a first-principles real-time…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity: Nonlinear Spin Response from Electron-Phonon Scattering

Mayank Gupta, Andrew Grieder, Mayada Fadel +4

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) generates spin-polarized currents in nonmagnetic materials from structural chirality alone, yet its microscopic origin remains debated. Us…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Alkali Intercalation of Moire Heterostructures for Low-Loss Plasmonics

Ali Ghorashi, Nicholas Rivera, Ravishankar Sundararaman +3

Two-dimensional metals generically support gapless plasmons with wavelengths well below the wavelength of free-space radiation at the same frequency. Typically, however, this subst…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Spatiotemporal spin transport from first principles

Mayada Fadel, Joshua Quinton, Mani Chandra +4

Manipulating spin for quantum information and spintronic devices requires quantitative prediction of quantum transport over long time and length scales. We introduce a computationa…

physics.chem-ph2025

Development of machine-learned interatomic potentials to predict structure, transport, and reactivity in platinum-based fuel cells

Kamron Fazel, Sam Brown, Jacob Clary +5

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have rapidly progressed in accuracy, speed, and data efficiency in recent years. However, training robust MLIPs in multicomponent sys…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Nanomolding single-crystalline CoIn3 and RhIn3 nanowires

Nghiep Khoan Duong, Christian D. Multunas, Thomas Whoriskey +8

Intermetallic compounds containing transition metals and group III-V metals tend to possess strong correlations and high catalytic activities, both of which can be enhanced via red…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 2 cited

Surface-dominant transport in Weyl semimetal NbAs nanowires for next-generation interconnects

Yeryun Cheon, Mehrdad T. Kiani, Yi-Hsin Tu +20

Ongoing demands for smaller and more energy efficient electronic devices necessitate alternative interconnect materials with lower electrical resistivity at reduced dimensions. Des…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 3 cited

Magnetic-field dependence of spin-phonon relaxation and dephasing due to g-factor fluctuations from first principles

Joshua Quinton, Mayada Fadel, Junqing Xu +4

The electron spin decay lifetime in materials can be characterized by relaxation (T1) and irreversible (T2) and reversible (T2*) decoherence processes. Their interplay leads to a c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Spin Dynamics in Hybrid Halide Perovskites -- Effect of Dynamical and Permanent Symmetry Breaking

Kejun Li, Junqing Xu, Uyen N. Huynh +7

The hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskite (HOIP), for example MAPbBr3, exhibits extended spin lifetime and apparent spin lifetime anisotropy in experiments. The underlying mec…

physics.chem-ph2024

Distinguishing Inner and Outer-Sphere Hot Electron Transfer in Au/p-GaN Photocathodes

Fatemeh Kiani, Alan R. Bowman, Milad Sabzehparvar +2

Exploring nonequilibrium hot carriers from plasmonic metal nanostructures is a dynamic field in optoelectronics, driving photochemical reactions such as solar fuel generation. The…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Static Subspace Approximation for Random Phase Approximation Correlation Energies: Implementation and Performance

Daniel Weinberg, Olivia A. Hull, Jacob M. Clary +3

Developing theoretical understanding of complex reactions and processes at interfaces requires using methods that go beyond semilocal density functional theory to accurately descri…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

BEAST DB: Grand-Canonical Database of Electrocatalyst Properties

Cooper Tezak, Jacob Clary, Sophie Gerits +12

We present BEAST DB, an open-source database comprised of ab initio electrochemical data computed using grand-canonical density functional theory in implicit solvent at consistent…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 17 cited

Bridging electronic and classical density-functional theory using universal machine-learned functional approximations

Michelle M. Kelley, Joshua Quinton, Kamron Fazel +3

The accuracy of density-functional theory (DFT) is determined by the quality of the approximate functionals, such as exchange-correlation in electronic DFT and the excess functiona…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Challenges and Opportunities in Searching for Rashba-Dresselhaus Materials for Efficient Spin-Charge Interconversion at Room Temperature

Zixu Wang, Zhizhong Chen, Rui Xu +3

Spintronic logic devices require efficient spin-charge interconversion: converting charge current to spin current and spin current to charge current. In spin-orbit materials that a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

1D-confined crystallization routes for tungsten phosphides

Gangtae Jin, Christian D. Multunas, James L. Hart +9

Topological materials confined in one-dimension (1D) can transform computing technologies, such as 1D topological semimetals for nanoscale interconnects and 1D topological supercon…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 36 cited

Interfacial Hot Carrier Collection Controls Plasmonic Chemistry

Fatemeh Kiani, Alan R. Bowman, Milad Sabzehparvar +3

Harnessing non-equilibrium hot carriers from plasmonic metal nanostructures constitutes a vibrant research field. It promises to enable control of activity and selectivity of photo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 16 cited

Quantum-mechanical effects in photoluminescence from thin crystalline gold films

Alan R. Bowman, Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri, Fatemeh Kiani +6

Luminescence constitutes a unique source of insight into hot carrier processes in metals, including those in plasmonic nanostructures used for sensing and energy applications. Howe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

First-principles molten salt phase diagrams through thermodynamic integration

Tanooj Shah, Kamron Fazel, Jie Lian +3

Precise prediction of phase diagrams in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations is challenging due to the simultaneous need for long time scales, large length scales and accurate inter…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 7 cited

A fully ab initio approach to inelastic atom-surface scattering

Michelle M. Kelley, Ravishankar Sundararaman, Tomás A. Arias

We introduce a fully ab initio theory for inelastic scattering of any atom from any surface exciting single phonons, and apply the theory to helium scattering from Nb(100). The key…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Improving the reliability of machine learned potentials for modeling inhomogenous liquids

Kamron Fazel, Nima Karimitari, Tanooj Shah +2

The atomic-scale response of inhomogeneous fluids at interfaces and surrounding solute particles plays a critical role in governing chemical, electrochemical and biological process…

physics.optics2023

Highly-confined and tunable plasmonics based on two-dimensional solid-state defect lattices

Ali Ghorashi, Nicholas Rivera, Bowen Shi +4

Plasmons, collective excitations of electrons in solids, are associated with strongly confined electromagnetic fields, with wavelengths far below the wavelength of photons in free…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 16 cited

Circular Dichroism of Crystals from First Principles

Christian Multunas, Andrew Grieder, Junqing Xu +2

Chiral crystals show promise for spintronic technologies on account of their high spin selectivity, which has led to significant recent interest in quantitative characterization an…