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报告题目：Molecules in states with different spin multiplicity:theoretical approaches and applications
报告时间：2024-10-23 10:00
报告人：Prof. Jiří Pittner
捷克科学院海洛夫斯基物理化学研究所
报告地点：卢嘉锡楼202报告厅
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报告摘要：
It is well known that properties of a molecule in its electronically excited state can be fundamentally different from the ground states ones. This fact is the basis of photochemistry and photophysics, which study reactions and properties of excited molecules, and it has many applications in both technology and material science, as well as in life sciences. For example, the ubiquitous oxygen molecule, which is a triplet in the ground state, has a highly reactive excited singlet state with cytotoxic effects. A photodynamic cancer therapy has been suggested, where a suitable photosensitizer molecule implanted in the tumor cell produces after photon absorption the singlet oxygen, which attacks the cell membrane. As an example from material science we can mention the OLED displays, where the energetical efficiency could be greatly improved if a suitable molecule with the first excited triplet state lying energetically higher than the first excited singlet could be found.
Theoretical modeling and understanding of such phenomena requires advanced methods of quantum chemistry.First of all, one has to be able to compute with sufficient accuracy the energies (and possibly also other properties) and understand the electronic structure of the states involved. Particularly challenging are molecules in the strongly correlated regime, i.e. with a small HOMO-LUMO gap, where several states are energetically close lying and more than one Slater determinant has a large weight in the wave function. We have developed multireference coupled cluster methods and coupled cluster methods externally corrected by the density matrix renormalization group, which are applicable in such situations. A brief overview of these developments will be presented, with an application to the cyclazine molecule, where the inverted singlet-triplet gap energetics is presently being debated in the literature.
Besides the “static” picture, where energies and time-independent properties of molecular states are investigated, the understanding of chemical processes often requires a time-dependent study. This can be performed employing molecular dynamics (MD), most often with (semi)classical treatment of the motion of atomic nuclei. When several excited states are included in the MD treatment in addition to the ground state, the method is called non-adiabatic molecular dynamics, and can be used to model photochemical processes like the internal conversion and the intersystem crossing. We have developed methods for computationally efficient non-adiabatic MD based on ADC(2) or TDDFT electronic structure treatment. Recently we investigated a halogen-derivative of the BODIPY molecule, which after a photoexcitation undergoes fast singlet-triplet transition and has thus the potential to serve as an efficient photosensitizer.
报告人简介：
Jiří Pittner，捷克科学院海洛夫斯基物理化学研究所教授，1996年获柏林自由大学和柏林洪堡大学博士学位，1997年在柏林洪堡大学从事博士后工作，1997-2005年担任海洛夫斯基物理化学研究所研究员，自2005年9月起担任 海洛夫斯基物理化学研究所理论化学系主任，1997年获得卡尔-拉姆绍尔论文奖；1999年获得约瑟夫·赫拉夫卡青年科学家奖；2001年获捷克青年科学家学会奖；2003年获Otto Wichterle青年科学家奖。Jiří Pittner教授的研究兴趣主要为发展强相关体系的精确量子化学方法，光化学反应体系非绝热分子动力学，以及基于量子计算机的量子化学计算算法等。
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