Axel Schild (0000-0002-0852-0938)

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Axel Schild did his PhD at Freie Universität Berlin with Prof. Jörn Manz and Prof. Beate Paulus, combining the expertise of his two supervisors (quantum dynamics and electronic structure theory) to investigate the electronic flux (current) density in molecules undergoing a chemical transformation, i.e., with explicit nuclear motion. He went on to become a Postdoc at the Max-Planck-Institute for Microstructure Physics Halle with Eberhard K. U. Gross, working on the Exact Factorization method and applying it to systems of identical particles, in particular to the electrons of a molecule in a strong laser field. In 2017, he became Ambizione fellow at ETH Zürich where he is developing the Exact Electron Factorization further, where he is collaborating with Prof. Hans Jakob Wörner on the description of attosecond phenomena in liquids, and where he is studying the emergence of time in quantum mechanics.

Research interests:
- Time in quantum mechanics
+ emergence of time in different contexts
+ development of approximations based on different time scales
- Electron dynamics and electronic structure
+ development of the Exact Electron Factorization
+ exact properties of Density Functional Theory
+ electronic flux densities in molecules
- Dynamics of systems in strong ultrashort laser pulses (attoscience)
+ application of the Exact Electron Factorization
+ attosecond spectroscopy of liquids

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Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker eV: Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, DE

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Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker eV: Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, DE

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e V: Bad Honnef, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE

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Exact Factorization Approach to the Dynamics of Molecules in Strong Laser Fields

Works (35)

Low-energy electron distributions from the photoionization of liquid water: a sensitive test of electron mean-free paths

Electronic quantum trajectories with quantum nuclei

Nodeless wave functions, spiky potentials, and the description of a quantum system in a quantum environment

Charge-transfer steps in Density Functional Theory from the perspective of the Exact Electron Factorization

On the relationship between the Kohn-Sham potential, the Pauli potential, and the Exact Electron Factorization

Nonlocal mechanisms of attosecond interferometry in three-dimensional systems

From nuclear fluxes during tunnelling to electronic fluxes during charge migration

Many-electron effects of strong-field ionization described in an exact one-electron theory

Attosecond Dynamics in Liquids

Attosecond spectroscopy of liquid water

Reply to "Comment on 'An Alternative Approach for the Determination of Mean Free Paths of Electron Scattering in Liquid Water Based on Experimental Data'"

Discontinuous Behavior of the Pauli Potential in Density Functional Theory as a Function of the Electron Number

Alternative Approach for the Determination of Mean Free Paths of Electron Scattering in Liquid Water Based on Experimental Data

Time in quantum mechanics: A fresh look on quantum hydrodynamics and quantum trajectories

On the Probability Density of the Nuclei in a Vibrationally Excited Molecule

From metastable to coherent sets - Time-discretization schemes

Time in quantum mechanics: A fresh look at the continuity equation

Nonlocal mechanism of attosecond interferometry and implications for condensed-phase experiments

From Metastable to Coherent Sets - time-discretization schemes

How Interatomic Steps in the Exact Kohn−Sham Potential Relate to Derivative Discontinuities of the Energy

Exact Single-Electron Approach to the Dynamics of Molecules in Strong Laser Fields

A single-electron approach for many-electron dynamics in high-order harmonic generation

Electronic Flux Density beyond the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation

ORBKIT: A modular python toolbox for cross-platform postprocessing of quantum chemical wavefunction data

Intramolecular Nuclear Flux Densities

Maximum tunneling velocities in symmetric double well potentials

Effects of molecular symmetry on the directions of nuclear flux densities during tunnelling in double well potentials

Multireference calculations for ring inversion and double bond shifting in cyclooctatetraene

Electron Fluxes During Chemical Processes in the Electronic Ground State

Electron Density Dynamics in the Electronic Ground State: Motion Along the Kekulé Mode of Benzene

Electron flux during pericyclic reactions in the tunneling limit: Quantum simulation for cyclooctatetraene

Isotope Effects of Reactions in Quantum Solids Initiated by IR + UV Lasers: Quantum Model Simulations for Cl($^2$P$_3/2$) + X$_2$($ν$) $→$ XCl + X in X$_2$ matrices (X = H, D)

Quantum effects of translational motions in solid para-hydrogen and ortho-deuterium: anharmonic extension of the Einstein model

Quantum model simulations of attosecond electron diffraction

The Cl + H$_2$ $→$ HCl + H Reaction Induced by IR + UV Irradiation of Cl$_2$ in Solid para-H$_2$: Quantum Model Simulation