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Thu 2022-12-08 17:00 CET

Quantum Science Seminar #69: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
Berger group
Robert Berger
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Marburg — Germany
Relativistic effects and their role in chirality and fundamental physics
This lecture shall serve two main purposes: Firstly, it shall provide an overview of special relativity and various relativistic electronic structure approaches. Secondly, it shall highlight the crucial role of relativistic effects in the description of molecular chirality and in fundamental physics research. Most importantly, the search for a violation of discrete symmetries like parity and time-reversal symmetry can benefit from large relativistic enhancement factors that can be taken advantage of with specifically tailored molecules containing heavy nuclei.
References
  1. Konstantin Gaul, Mikhail G. Kozlov, Timur A. Isaev, and Robert Berger
    Chiral Molecules as Sensitive Probes for Direct Detection of P-Odd Cosmic Fields
    Physical Review Letters
    125
    123004
    2020
  2. Robert Berger and Jürgen Stohner
    Parity violation
    WIREs Computational Molecular Science
    9
    e1396
    2019
  3. Robert Berger and Christoph van Wüllen
    Density functional calculations of molecular parity-violating effects within the zeroth-order regular approximation
    The Journal of Chemical Physics
    122
    134316
    2005