Dr. Dominik Sidler

Work at ZHAW

Focus

The Quantum Light-Matter Engineering Group at the ZHAW Institute of Computational Physics explores new ways to control and design the properties of light and matter at microscopic scales, where quantum effects become essential.

Teaching

• Numerik_FS26
• Lecturer Ab-initio QEDFT School (Flatiron Institute, New York, US)

Experience

• Group Leader
  Max-Planck-Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter / Theory
  04 / 2025 - today
• Scientist
  Paul Scherrer Institute / Laboratory for Materials Simulations
  06 / 2024 - 12 / 2025
• Postdoctoral Researcher
  Max-Planck-Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter / Theory
  06 / 2019 - 06 / 2024
• PhD Student
  ETH Zurich / Computational Chemistry Group
  04 / 2015 - 05 / 2019
• Product Manager Individual Life
  AXA Schweiz
  12 / 2013 - 03 / 2015
• Graduate Pricing IL
  AXA Schweiz
  12 / 2012 - 11 / 2013

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4732-5713

Publications

• Sidler, Dominik; Ruggenthaler, Michael; Rubio, Angel,

  2025.

  Collectively-modified intermolecular electron correlations : the connection of polaritonic chemistry and spin glass physics.

  Chemical Reviews.

  126(1), pp. 4-27.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00711

• Sidler, Dominik; Bustamante, Carlos M.; Bonafé, Franco P.; Ruggenthaler, Michael; Sukharev, Maxim; Rubio, Angel,

  2025.

  Density-functional tight binding meets Maxwell : unraveling the mysteries of (strong) light–matter coupling efficiently.

  Nanophotonics.

  14(27), pp. 4941-4955.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2025-0453

• Horak, Jacob; Sidler, Dominik; Schnappinger, Thomas; Huang, Wei-Ming; Ruggenthaler, Michael; Rubio, Angel,

  2025.

  Analytic model reveals local molecular polarizability changes induced by collective strong coupling in optical cavities.

  Physical Review Research.

  7(013242).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.7.013242

• Bustamante, Carlos M.; Sidler, Dominik; Ruggenthaler, Michael; Rubio, Ángel,

  2024.

  The relevance of degenerate states in chiral polaritonics.

  The Journal of Chemical Physics.

  161(24), pp. 244101.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0235935

• Sidler, Dominik; Schnappinger, Thomas; Obzhirov, Anatoly; Ruggenthaler, Michael; Kowalewski, Markus; Rubio, Angel,

  2024.

  Unraveling a cavity-induced molecular polarization mechanism from collective vibrational strong coupling.

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

  15(19), pp. 5208-5214.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c00913

• Sidler, Dominik; Ruggenthaler, Michael; Rubio, Angel,

  2023.

  Numerically exact solution for a real polaritonic system under vibrational strong coupling in thermodynamic equilibrium : loss of light-matter entanglement and enhanced fluctuations.

  Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.

  19(23), pp. 8801-8814.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00092

• Ruggenthaler, Michael; Sidler, Dominik; Rubio, Angel,

  2023.

  Understanding polaritonic chemistry from ab initio quantum electrodynamics.

  Chemical Reviews.

  123(19), pp. 11191-11229.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00788

• Schnappinger, Thomas; Sidler, Dominik; Ruggenthaler, Michael; Rubio, Angel; Kowalewski, Markus,

  2023.

  Cavity Born–Oppenheimer Hartree–Fock Ansatz : light-matter properties of strongly coupled molecular ensembles.

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

  14(36), pp. 8024-8033.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01842

• Sidler, Dominik; Ruggenthaler, Michael; Rubio, Angel,

  2023.

  Protected spin-orbit induced absorption divergence in distorted Landau levels.

  Physical Review B.

  107(21), pp. 214409.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.107.214409

• Sidler, Dominik; Rokaj, Vasil; Ruggenthaler, Michael; Rubio, Angel,

  2022.

  Class of distorted Landau levels and Hall phases in a two-dimensional electron gas subject to an inhomogeneous magnetic field.

  Physical Review Research.

  4(4), pp. 043059.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.4.043059

• Sidler, Dominik; Ruggenthaler, Michael; Schäfer, Christian; Ronca, Enrico; Rubio, Angel,

  2022.

  A perspective on ab initio modeling of polaritonic chemistry : the role of non-equilibrium effects and quantum collectivity.

  The Journal of Chemical Physics.

  156(23), pp. 230901.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0094956

• Sidler, Dominik; Schäfer, Christian; Ruggenthaler, Michael; Rubio, Angel,

  2020.

  Polaritonic chemistry : collective strong coupling implies strong local modification of chemical properties.

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

  12(1), pp. 508-516.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03436

• Jouvet, Guillaume; Röllin, Stefan; Sahli, Hans; Corcho, José; Gnägi, Lars; Compagno, Loris; Sidler, Dominik; Schwikowski, Margit; Bauder, Andreas; Funk, Martin,

  2020.

  Mapping the age of ice of Gauligletscher combining surface radionuclide contamination and ice flow modeling.

  The Cryosphere.

  14(11), pp. 4233-4251.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4233-2020

• Peller, Dominik; Roelcke, Carmen; Kastner, Lukas Z.; Buchner, Thomas; Neef, Alexander; Hayes, Johannes; Bonafé, Franco; Sidler, Dominik; Ruggenthaler, Michael; Rubio, Ángel; Huber, Rupert; Repp, Jascha,

  2020.

  Quantitative sampling of atomic-scale electromagnetic waveforms.

  Nature Photonics.

  15(2), pp. 143-147.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-020-00720-8

• Sidler, Dominik; Ruggenthaler, Michael; Appel, Heiko; Rubio, Angel,

  2020.

  Chemistry in quantum cavities : exact results, the impact of thermal velocities, and modified dissociation.

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

  11(18), pp. 7525-7530.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01556

• Sidler, Dominik; Lehner, Marc; Frasch, Simon; Cristófol-Clough, Michael; Riniker, Sereina,

  2019.

  Density artefacts at interfaces caused by multiple time-step effects in molecular dynamics simulations.

  F1000Research.

  7(1745).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.16715.3

• Sidler, Dominik; Bleiziffer, Patrick; Riniker, Sereina,

  2019.

  Beyond the Rosenfeld equation : computation of vibrational circular dichroism spectra for anisotropic solutions.

  Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.

  15(4), pp. 2492-2503.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.8b01156

• Sidler, Dominik; Riniker, Sereina,

  2019.

  Fast Nosé–Hoover thermostat : molecular dynamics in quasi-thermodynamic equilibrium.

  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

  21(11), pp. 6059-6070.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cp06800c

• Sidler, Dominik; Frasch, Simon; Cristòfol-Clough, Michael; Riniker, Sereina,

  2018.

  Anisotropic reaction field correction for long-range electrostatic interactions in molecular dynamics simulations.

  The Journal of Chemical Physics.

  148(23), pp. 234105.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5007132

• Sidler, Dominik; Cristòfol-Clough, Michael; Riniker, Sereina,

  2017.

  Efficient round-trip time optimization for replica-exchange enveloping distribution sampling (RE-EDS).

  Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.

  13(6), pp. 3020-3030.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00286

• Sidler, Dominik; Schwaninger, Arthur; Riniker, Sereina,

  2016.

  Replica exchange enveloping distribution sampling (RE-EDS) : a robust method to estimate multiple free-energy differences from a single simulation.

  The Journal of Chemical Physics.

  145(15), pp. 154114.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4964781

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