Benedikt Kloss
Email: bk2576-at-columbia-dot-edu
Research Interests
- Non-equilibrium quantum dynamics
- Transport in one- and two-dimensional strongly correlated quantum systems
- Application of the time-dependent variational principle to tensor network states
- Dynamics and optical response of excitations in organic materials
Education
- Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Physics, Columbia University, anticipated 2021 (Advisor: David Reichman)
- M.Sc. in Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, 2016 (Advisor: Irene Burghardt)
- Visiting student in David Reichman's group at Columbia University, New York, 2014
- B.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Bielefeld, Germany, and Université Paris VII - Diderot, 2013
Honors
- Eudith and Eugene Blout Fellowship (2017)
- Scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (2010-2016)
Publications
- B. Kloss, D. Reichman and R. Tempelaar. Multiset matrix product state calculations reveal mobile Franck-Condon excitations under strong Holstein-type coupling. Phys. Rev. Lett. 123,126601 (2019).
- B. Kloss and Y. Bar Lev. Spin transport in a long-range-interacting spin chain. Physical Review A 99, 032114 (2019).
- B. Kloss, Y. Bar Lev, and D. Reichman. Time-dependent variational principle in matrix-product state manifolds: pitfalls and potential. Physical Review B 96, 024307 (2018).
- B. Kloss, I. Burghardt, and C. Lubich. Implementation of a novel projector-splitting integrator for the multi-configurational time-dependent hartree approach. The Journal of Chemical Physics 146, 174107 (2017).
- I. Breen, R. Tempelaar, L A. Bizimana, B. Kloss, D. R. Reichman, and D. B. Turner. Triplet separation drives singlet fission after femtosecond correlated triplet pair production in rubrene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(34), 11745-11751 (2017).
- A. Fihey, B. Kloss, A. Perrier and F. Maurel. Density functional theory study of the conformation and optical properties of hybrid aun–dithienylethene systems (n = 3, 19, 25). The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 118(26), 4695-4706 (2014).