Publications de Ivano Tavernelli

Dual-frame optimization for informationally complete quantum measurements

Randomized measurement protocols such as classical shadows represent powerful resources for quantum technologies, with applications ranging from quantum state characterization and process tomography to machine learning and error mitigation. Recently, the n ...

2024

Phenomenological theory of variational quantum ground-state preparation

Ivano Tavernelli, Giuseppe Carleo

The variational approach is a cornerstone of computational physics, considering both conventional and quantum computing computational platforms. The variational quantum eigensolver algorithm aims to prepare the ground state of a Hamiltonian exploiting para ...

Amer Physical Soc2023

Optical absorption properties of metal-organic frameworks: solid stateversusmolecular perspective

Ivano Tavernelli, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Berend Smit, Maria Fumanal Quintana

The vast chemical space of metal and ligand combinations in Transition Metal Complexes (TMCs) gives rise to a rich variety of electronic excited states with local and non-local character such as intra-ligand (IL), metal-centered (MC), metal-to-ligand (MLCT ...

2020

Charge Separation and Charge Carrier Mobility in Photocatalytic Metal‐Organic Frameworks

Ivano Tavernelli, Berend Smit, Kevin Maik Jablonka, Maria Fumanal Quintana

Metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) are highly versatile materials owing to their vast structural and chemical tunability. These hybrid inorganic–organic crystalline materials offer an ideal platform to incorporate light‐harvesting and catalytic centers and th ...

2020

Energy-based descriptors for photo-catalytically active metal–organic framework discovery

Ivano Tavernelli, Gloria Capano, Berend Smit, Senja Dominique Barthel, Maria Fumanal Quintana

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) consist of metal nodes that are connected by organic linkers. They are thus highly chemically tunable materials given the broad range of potential linkers and nodes that can be chosen for their synthesis. Their tunability ha ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Insights into the Electronic Properties and Charge Transfer Mechanism of a Porphyrin Ruthenium-Based Metal–Organic Framework

Ivano Tavernelli, Gloria Capano, Berend Smit, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero, Maria Fumanal Quintana

2020

Redox Properties of Native and Damaged DNA from Mixed Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanics Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Polydefkis Diamantis

The redox properties of two large DNA fragments composed of 39 base pairs, differing only by an 8-oxoguanine (8oxoG) defect replacing a guanine (G), were investigated in physiological conditions using mixed quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) m ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Vertical Ionization Energies and Electron Affinities of Native and Damaged DNA Bases, Nucleotides, and Pairs from Density Functional Theory Calculations: Model Assessment and Implications for DNA Damage Recognition and Repair

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Polydefkis Diamantis

To assess the effect of an 8-oxoguanine (8OG) defect base on the vertical ionization energies (VIEs) and electron affinities (VEAs) of DNA, density functional theory calculations were carried out for native and defect DNA bases and nucleotides, as well as ...

2019

Local control theory for superconducting qubits

Ivano Tavernelli, Sara Bonella

In this work, we develop a method to design control pulses for fixed-frequency superconducting qubits coupled via tunable couplers based on local control theory, an approach commonly employed to steer chemical reactions. Local control theory provides an al ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Vibrational coherence transfer in the ultrafast intersystem crossing of a diplatinum complex in solution

Majed Chergui, Ivano Tavernelli, Gerald Auböck, Roberto Monni, Gloria Capano

National Academy of Sciences2018

Photophysics of a copper phenanthroline elucidated by trajectory and wavepacket-based quantum dynamics: a synergetic approach

Majed Chergui, Ivano Tavernelli, Thomas James Penfold, Gloria Capano

On-the-fly excited state molecular dynamics is a valuable method for studying non-equilibrium processes in excited states and is beginning to emerge as a mature approach much like its ground state counterparts. In contrast to quantum wavepacket dynamics me ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Tris-heteroleptic Iridium Complexes Based on Cyclometalated Ligands with Different Cores

Ivano Tavernelli, Yanouk Cudré

A series of tris-heteroleptic iridium complexes of the form [Ir(CN-1)(CN-2)(acac)] combining 2-phenyl pyridine (ppy), 2-(2,4-difluorophenyl)pyridine (dFppy), 1-phenylpyrazole (ppz), and 1-(2,4-difluorophenyl)pyrazole (dFppz) as the CAN ligands have b ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

TDDFT-Based Spin-Orbit Couplings of 0D, 1D, and 2D Carbon Nanostructures: Static and Dynamical Effects

Ivano Tavernelli

Carbon nanostructures (CNS) constitute an important class of materials derived from graphene that share remarkable photophysical and photochemical properties of potential interest for a number of technological applications, ranging from electron transport ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Characterization of the Photochemical Properties of 5-Benzyluracil via Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Basile Curchod, Sara Bonella, Mohammadhassan Valadan

We present a detailed study of the excited state properties of 5-benzyluracil (5BU) in the gas phase and in implicit solvent using different electronic structure approaches ranging from time-dependent density functional theory in the linear response regime ...

2017

Nonadiabatic dynamics with intersystem crossings: A time-dependent density functional theory implementation

Ivano Tavernelli

In this work, we derive a method to perform trajectory-based nonadiabatic dynamics that is able to describe both nonadiabatic transitions and intersystem crossing events (transitions between states of different spin-multiplicity) at the same level of theor ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Local Control Theory in Trajectory Surface Hopping Dynamics Applied to the Excited-State Proton Transfer of 4-Hydroxyacridine

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Basile Curchod, Thomas James Penfold

The application of local control theory combined with nonadiabatic ab initio molecular dynamics to study the photoinduced intramolecular proton transfer reaction in 4-hydroxyacridine was investigated. All calculations were performed within the framework of ...

2015

A Theoretical Rationalisation of the Emission Properties of Prototypical Cu(I)-Phenanthroline Complexes

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Thomas James Penfold, Gloria Capano

The excited state properties of transition metal complexes have become a central focus of research owing to a wide range of possible applications that seek to exploit their luminescence properties. Herein, we use density functional theory (DFT), time-depen ...

2015

Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Synergies between Theory and Experiments

Ivano Tavernelli

CONSPECTUS: Recent developments in nonadiabatic dynamics enabled ab inito simulations of complex ultrafast processes in the condensed phase. These advances have opened new avenues in the study of many photophysical and photochemical reactions triggered by ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

In-situ mapping of the molecular arrangement of amphiphilic dye molecules at the TiO2 surface of dye sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Nicolas Tétreault, Negar Ashari Astani, Francesco Stellacci, Kislon Voitchovsky, Hauke Arne Harms

Amphiphilic sensitizers are central to the function of dye-sensitized solar cells. It is known that the cells performance depends on the molecular arrangement and the density of the dye on the semiconductor surface, but a molecular-level picture of the cel ...

2015

Probing wavepacket dynamics using ultrafast x-ray spectroscopy

Majed Chergui, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Thomas James Penfold, Gloria Capano

The advent of x-ray free electron lasers is providing new opportunities for probing the ultrafast excited state dynamics using structurally sensitive techniques. Herein we use excited state wavepacket dynamics of a prototypical Cu(I)-phenanthroline complex ...

IOP Publishing2015