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Since 2019, Matheon's application-oriented mathematical research activities are being continued in the framework of the Cluster of Excellence MATH+
www.mathplus.de
The Matheon websites will not be updated anymore.

PD Dr. Burkhard Schmidt

Mitarbeiter im Projekt SE 11

FU Berlin, Institut für Mathematik
Arnimallee 6
14195 Berlin
+49 (0) 30 +49 (0)30 838 51382
burkhard.schmidt@fu-berlin.de


Forschungsschwerpunkte

Quanten-klassische Molekulardynamik, licht-induzierte Prozesse

Projekte als Mitglied

  • SE20

    Exciton dynamics in organic semiconductors

    Prof. Dr. Rupert Klein

    Projektleiter: Prof. Dr. Rupert Klein
    Projekt Mitglieder: PD Dr. Burkhard Schmidt
    Laufzeit: 01.06.2017 - 31.12.2018
    Status: beendet
    Standort: Freie Universität Berlin

    Beschreibung

    The performance of optoelectronic devices, such as photovoltaic cells, is critically influenced by the transport of excitonic energy because the majority of photo-excitations occur in the bulk of the crystal from where the energy has to be transported to the interfaces with the electrodes, where charge generation often only occurs. In organic semiconductors, e.g. molecular crystals, polymer chains or dendrimers, the excitons are strongly localized, and the energy transport is normally modeled in terms of excitons diffusively hopping between sites. The present proposal aims at an improved understanding of the excitonic energy transport in organic semiconductors, which is relevant for the characterization of organic solar cells, on a microscopic basis, with emphasis on the role of the electron-phonon coupling. Using mixed quantum-classical dynamics schemes, the electronic degrees of freedom (excitons) are to be treated quantum-mechanically while the nuclear motions (phonons, molecular vibrations) are treated classically. To this end, stochastic surface-hopping algorithms shall be applied and further developed.

    https://sites.google.com/site/quantclassmoldyn/research/quantum-classical
  • SE11

    Model order reduction for light-controlled nanocatalysis

    Projektleiter: -
    Projekt Mitglieder: PD Dr. Burkhard Schmidt
    Laufzeit: -
    Status: beendet
    Standort: Freie Universität Berlin

    Beschreibung

    Photocatalysis is a key application in the field of femtochemistry where chemical reaction dynamics is controlled by temporally shaped femtosecond laser pulses, with the target to promote specific product channels while suppressing competing undesired channels, e.g. pollutants. The optimal shaping of the laser pulse requires a detailed insight into the underlying reaction mechanisms at the atomic or molec- ular level that can often only be obtained by theoretical modelling and computer simulations of the quantum mechanical equations of motion. For catalytic system, this boils down to the iterated integration of the dissipative Liouville–von–Neumann (LvN) equation for reduced quantum mechanical density matrices, which represents the computational bottleneck for theoretical modelling, as the size of the matrices grows quadratically with the number of quantum states involved. The aim of this project is to study model order reduction (MOR) of LvN-based models to beat the curse of dimensionality in the simulation and (optimal) control of photocatalytic processes. In the setting of first-order perturbation theory, the laser field in these models is linearly coupled to the density matrix, which leads to a time- inhomogeneous bilinear system of equations of motion. MOR of bilinear systems has recently been a field of intense research. The downside of many available methods is their lack of structure preservation, most importantly, asymptotic stability of fixed points. An alternative that is in the focus of this project is MOR based on balancing the controllable and observable subspace of the system. Even though the identification of the essential subspace requires the solution of large-scale Lyapunov equations, which limits the applicability of the method to systems of moderate size (up to 100,000 DOFs), it has proven powerful for linear control systems in terms of computable error bounds and structure preservation. Whether these results carry over to the bilinear case is still open. Goals: Extending existing approaches to MOR from the linear to the bilinear case (required for LvN-based models) Developing, implementing and testing numerical methods for the solution of large-scale generalized Sylvester and Lyapunov equations Exploring structure preservation of MOR approaches Applying MOR approaches with optimal control of open quantum systems Identifying relevant photochemical benchmark systems to test various MOR / OC approaches

    https://sites.google.com/site/ecmathse11/

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