• Behind the scenes of spin-forbidden decay pathways in transition metal complexes 

      Moitra, Torsha; Karak, Pijush; Chakraborty, Sayantani; Ruud, Kenneth; Chakrabarti, Swapan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-10)
      The interpretation of the ultrafast photophysics of transition metal complexes following photo-absorption is quite involved as the heavy metal center leads to a complicated and entangled singlet–triplet manifold. This opens up multiple pathways for deactivation, often with competitive rates. As a result, intersystem crossing (ISC) and phosphorescence are commonly observed in transition metal complexes. ...
    • Demystifying the Origin of Vibrational Coherence Transfer Between the S1 and T1 States of the Pt-pop Complex 

      Karak, Pijush; Ruud, Kenneth; Chakrabarti, Swapan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-01)
      We demonstrate that spin-vibronic coupling is the most significant mechanism in vibrational coherence transfer (VCT) from the singlet (S<sub>1</sub>) to the triplet (T<sub>1</sub>) state of the [Pt<sub>2</sub>(P<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub>H<sub>2</sub>)<sub>4</sub>]<sup>4–</sup> complex. Our time-dependent correlation function-based study shows that the rate of intersystem crossing (<i>k</i><sub>ISC</sub>) ...
    • Photophysics of uracil: an explicit time-dependent generating function-based method combining both nonadiabatic and spin-orbit coupling effects 

      Karak, Pijush; Moitra, Torsha; Ruud, Kenneth; Chakrabarti, Swapan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-14)
      We present a composite framework for calculating the rates of non-radiative deactivation processes, namely internal conversion (IC) and intersystem crossing (ISC), on an equal footing by explicitly computing the non-adiabatic coupling (NAC) and spin–orbit coupling (SOC) constants, respectively. The stationary-state approach uses a time-dependent generating function based on Fermi's golden rule. We ...
    • Spin-vibronic interaction induced reverse intersystem crossing: A case study with TXO-TPA and TXO-PhCz molecules 

      Karak, Pijush; Ruud, Kenneth; Chakrabarti, Swapan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-01)
      We highlight the important roles the direct spin–orbit (DSO) coupling, the spin-vibronic (SV) coupling, and the dielectric constant of the medium play on the reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) mechanism of TXO-TPA and TXO-PhCz molecules. To understand this complex phenomenon, we have calculated the RISC rate constant, kRISC, using a time-dependent correlation function-based method within the framework ...