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20152026
most citedGeneralized Quantum Master Equations In and Out of Equilibrium: When Can One Win?

84 citations · 502 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

UGME: A python package for non-Markovian protein folding dynamics

Anthony J. Dominic, Bertram Cham, Andrés Montoya-Castillo

Biomolecular processes, including protein folding, protein-protein association, and protein-DNA recognition, often occur on timescales beyond what individual atomistic molecular dy…

physics.chem-ph2026★ 1 cited

Short-lived memory in multidimensional spectra encodes full signal evolution

Thomas Sayer, Ethan H. Fink, Zachary R. Wiethorn +9

Ultrafast multidimensional spectroscopies are powerful tools that can access charge and energy flow in complex materials, shifting chemical kinetics, and even many-body interaction…

physics.chem-ph2026

For molecular polaritons, disorder and phonon timescales control the activation of dark states in the thermodynamic limit

Tianchu Li, Pranay Venkatesh, Qiang Shi +1

Collective light-matter systems host an extensive manifold of dark states whose role in the emergence of thermodynamic behavior remains poorly understood, especially in the presenc…

physics.chem-ph2026

How to improve the accuracy of semiclassical and quasiclassical dynamics with and without generalized quantum master equations

Matthew R. Laskowski, Srijan Bhattacharyya, Andrés Montoya-Castillo

Semi- and quasi-classical (SC) theories can handle arbitrary interatomic interactions and are thus well-suited to predict quantum dynamics in condensed phases that encode energy an…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Data-driven, non-Markovian modelling of weather in the presence of non-stationary, non-Gaussian, and heteroskedastic climate dynamics

Thomas Sayer, Andrés Montoya-Castillo

While the generalized Langevin equation (GLE) is a powerful tool to understand the behavior of complex dissipative systems, driving by external fields renders standard GLE construc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 19 cited

Charge Hopping Dynamics along a Disordered Chain in Quantum Environments: Comparative Study of Different Rate Kernels

Seogjoo J. Jang, Andres Montoya-Castillo

This work presents a computational study of charge hopping dynamics along a one dimensional chain with Gaussian site energy disorder and linearly coupled quantum bath. Time depende…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 8 cited

Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy in the condensed phase using equivariant transformer accelerated molecular dynamics simulations

Joseph Kelly, Frank Hu, Arianna Damiani +10

Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES) provides rich information about how the electronic states of molecules, proteins, and solid-state materials interact with each other…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Theory of ab initio downfolding with arbitrary range electron-phonon coupling

Norm M. Tubman, Christopher J. N. Coveney, Chih-En Hsu +6

Ab initio downfolding describes the electronic structure of materials within a low-energy subspace, often around the Fermi level. Typically starting from mean-field calculations, t…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Phonon-mediated electron attraction in SrTiO via the generalized Fröhlich and deformation potential mechanisms

Christopher J. N. Coveney, Norm M. Tubman, Chih-En Hsu +6

Superconductivity in doped SrTiO was discovered in 1964, the first superconducting transition observed in a doped semiconductor. However, the mechanism of electron pairing in S…

physics.chem-ph2024

Space-local memory in generalized master equations: Reaching the thermodynamic limit for the cost of a small lattice simulation

Srijan Bhattacharyya, Thomas Sayer, Andrés Montoya-Castillo

The exact quantum dynamics of lattice models can be computationally intensive, especially when aiming for large system sizes and extended simulation times necessary to converge tra…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 2 cited

Symmetry breaking fluctuations split the porphyrin Q bands

Zachary R. Wiethorn, Kye E. Hunter, Andrés Montoya-Castillo +1

Porphyrins offer a malleable and cost-efficient platform to sculpt bioinspired technologies with tunable charge transfer, energy conversion, and photocatalytic properties. Yet, des…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 4 cited

Generalized quantum master equations can improve the accuracy of semiclassical predictions of multitime correlation functions

Thomas Sayer, Andrés Montoya-Castillo

Multitime quantum correlation functions are central objects in physical science, offering a direct link between experimental observables and the dynamics of an underlying model. Wh…

physics.chem-ph2024

Mori generalized master equations offer an efficient route to predict and interpret transport

Srijan Bhattacharyya, Thomas Sayer, Andrés Montoya-Castillo

Predicting how a material's microscopic structure and dynamics determine its transport properties remains a fundamental challenge. To alleviate this task's often prohibitive comput…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 13 cited

Efficient formulation of multitime generalized quantum master equations: Taming the cost of simulating 2D spectra

Thomas Sayer, Andrés Montoya-Castillo

Modern 4-wave mixing spectroscopies are expensive to obtain experimentally and computationally. In certain cases, the unfavorable scaling of quantum dynamics problems can be improv…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 2 cited

Beyond the Condon limit: Condensed phase optical spectra from atomistic simulations

Zachary Wiethorn, Kye Hunter, Tim Zuehlsdorff +1

While dark transitions made bright by molecular motions determine the optoelectronic properties of many materials, simulating such non-Condon effects in condensed-phase spectroscop…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 14 cited

Anomalous transport of small polarons arises from transient lattice relaxation or immovable boundaries

Srijan Bhattacharyya, Thomas Sayer, Andrés Montoya-Castillo

Elucidating transport mechanisms and predicting transport coefficients is crucial for advancing material innovation, design, and application. Yet, state-of-the-art calculations are…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 3 cited

Elucidating the role of hydrogen bonding in the optical spectroscopy of the solvated green fluorescent protein chromophore: using machine learning to establish the importance of high-level electronic structure

Michael S. Chen, Yuezhi Mao, Andrew Snider +5

Hydrogen bonding interactions with chromophores in chemical and biological environments play a key role in determining their electronic absorption and relaxation processes, which a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 9 cited

Trion formation resolves observed peak shifts in the optical spectra of transition metal dichalcogenides

Thomas Sayer, Yusef R. Farah, Rachelle Austin +3

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have the potential to unlock novel photonic and chemical technologies if their optoelectronic properties can be understood and con…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 5 cited

A derivation of the conditions under which bosonic operators exactly capture fermionic structure and dynamics

Andrés Montoya-Castillo, Thomas E. Markland

The dynamics of many-body fermionic systems are important in problems ranging from catalytic reactions at electrochemical surfaces, to transport through nanojunctions, and offer a…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 1 cited

An accurate and efficient Ehrenfest dynamics approach for calculating linear and nonlinear electronic spectra

Austin O. Atsango, Andrés Montoya-Castillo, Thomas E. Markland

Linear and nonlinear electronic spectra provide an important tool to probe the absorption and transfer of electronic energy. Here we introduce a pure state Ehrenfest approach to ob…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 25 cited

Hot carrier extraction from 2D semiconductor photoelectrodes

Rachelle Austin, Yusef Farah, Thomas Sayer +4

Hot carrier-based energy conversion systems could double the efficiency of conventional solar energy technology or drive photochemical reactions that would not be possible using fu…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 16 cited

Compact and complete description of non-Markovian dynamics

Thomas Sayer, Andrés Montoya-Castillo

Generalized master equations provide a theoretically rigorous framework to capture the dynamics of processes ranging from energy harvesting in plants and photovoltaic devices, to q…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 6 cited

Optically induced anisotropy in time-resolved scattering: Imaging molecular scale structure and dynamics in disordered media with experiment and theory

Andrés Montoya-Castillo, Michael S. Chen, Sumana L. Raj +6

Time-resolved scattering experiments enable imaging of materials at the molecular scale with femtosecond time resolution. However, in disordered media they provide access to just o…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 20 cited

Excited state diabatization on the cheap using DFT: Photoinduced electron and hole transfer

Yuezhi Mao, Andres Montoya-Castillo, Thomas E. Markland

Excited state electron and hole transfer underpin fundamental steps in processes such as exciton dissociation at photovoltaic heterojunctions, photoinduced charge transfer at elect…