Dr. Dominik Sidler

Work at ZHAW

Position

Lecturer at the Institute of Computational Physics ICP

Focus

Quantum Light-Matter Engineering

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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