
Michael Stephen Chen
Ph.D. Student in Chemistry, admitted Summer 2017
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Exploiting Machine Learning to Efficiently Predict Multidimensional Optical Spectra in Complex Environments.
The journal of physical chemistry letters
2020: 7559–68
Abstract
The excited-state dynamics of chromophores in complex environments determine a range of vital biological and energy capture processes. Time-resolved, multidimensional optical spectroscopies provide a key tool to investigate these processes. Although theory has the potential to decode these spectra in terms of the electronic and atomistic dynamics, the need for large numbers of excited-state electronic structure calculations severely limits first-principles predictions of multidimensional optical spectra for chromophores in the condensed phase. Here, we leverage the locality of chromophore excitations to develop machine learning models to predict the excited-state energy gap of chromophores in complex environments for efficiently constructing linear and multidimensional optical spectra. By analyzing the performance of these models, which span a hierarchy of physical approximations, across a range of chromophore-environment interaction strengths, we provide strategies for the construction of machine learning models that greatly accelerate the calculation of multidimensional optical spectra from first principles.
View details for DOI 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02168
View details for PubMedID 32808797