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

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Sidler, D., Ruggenthaler, M., & Rubio, A. (2025). Collectively-modified intermolecular electron correlations : the connection of polaritonic chemistry and spin glass physics. Chemical Reviews, 126(1), 4–27. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00711
• Sidler, D., Bustamante, C. M., Bonafé, F. P., Ruggenthaler, M., Sukharev, M., & Rubio, A. (2025). Density-functional tight binding meets Maxwell : unraveling the mysteries of (strong) light–matter coupling efficiently. Nanophotonics, 14(27), 4941–4955. https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2025-0453
• Horak, J., Sidler, D., Schnappinger, T., Huang, W.-M., Ruggenthaler, M., & Rubio, A. (2025). Analytic model reveals local molecular polarizability changes induced by collective strong coupling in optical cavities. Physical Review Research, 7(013242). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.7.013242
• Bustamante, C. M., Sidler, D., Ruggenthaler, M., & Rubio, Á. (2024). The relevance of degenerate states in chiral polaritonics. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 161(24), 244101. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0235935
• Sidler, D., Schnappinger, T., Obzhirov, A., Ruggenthaler, M., Kowalewski, M., & Rubio, A. (2024). Unraveling a cavity-induced molecular polarization mechanism from collective vibrational strong coupling. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 15(19), 5208–5214. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c00913
• Sidler, D., Ruggenthaler, M., & Rubio, A. (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), 8801–8814. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00092
• Ruggenthaler, M., Sidler, D., & Rubio, A. (2023). Understanding polaritonic chemistry from ab initio quantum electrodynamics. Chemical Reviews, 123(19), 11191–11229. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00788
• Schnappinger, T., Sidler, D., Ruggenthaler, M., Rubio, A., & Kowalewski, M. (2023). Cavity Born–Oppenheimer Hartree–Fock Ansatz : light-matter properties of strongly coupled molecular ensembles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 14(36), 8024–8033. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01842
• Sidler, D., Ruggenthaler, M., & Rubio, A. (2023). Protected spin-orbit induced absorption divergence in distorted Landau levels. Physical Review B, 107(21), 214409. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.107.214409
• Sidler, D., Rokaj, V., Ruggenthaler, M., & Rubio, A. (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), 43059. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.4.043059
• Sidler, D., Ruggenthaler, M., Schäfer, C., Ronca, E., & Rubio, A. (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), 230901. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0094956
• Sidler, D., Schäfer, C., Ruggenthaler, M., & Rubio, A. (2020). Polaritonic chemistry : collective strong coupling implies strong local modification of chemical properties. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 12(1), 508–516. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03436
• Jouvet, G., Röllin, S., Sahli, H., Corcho, J., Gnägi, L., Compagno, L., Sidler, D., Schwikowski, M., Bauder, A., & Funk, M. (2020). Mapping the age of ice of Gauligletscher combining surface radionuclide contamination and ice flow modeling. The Cryosphere, 14(11), 4233–4251. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4233-2020
• Peller, D., Roelcke, C., Kastner, L. Z., Buchner, T., Neef, A., Hayes, J., Bonafé, F., Sidler, D., Ruggenthaler, M., Rubio, Á., Huber, R., & Repp, J. (2020). Quantitative sampling of atomic-scale electromagnetic waveforms. Nature Photonics, 15(2), 143–147. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-020-00720-8
• Sidler, D., Ruggenthaler, M., Appel, H., & Rubio, A. (2020). Chemistry in quantum cavities : exact results, the impact of thermal velocities, and modified dissociation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11(18), 7525–7530. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01556
• Sidler, D., Lehner, M., Frasch, S., Cristófol-Clough, M., & Riniker, S. (2019). Density artefacts at interfaces caused by multiple time-step effects in molecular dynamics simulations. F1000Research, 7(1745). https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.16715.3
• Sidler, D., Bleiziffer, P., & Riniker, S. (2019). Beyond the Rosenfeld equation : computation of vibrational circular dichroism spectra for anisotropic solutions. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 15(4), 2492–2503. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.8b01156
• Sidler, D., & Riniker, S. (2019). Fast Nosé–Hoover thermostat : molecular dynamics in quasi-thermodynamic equilibrium. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21(11), 6059–6070. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cp06800c
• Sidler, D., Frasch, S., Cristòfol-Clough, M., & Riniker, S. (2018). Anisotropic reaction field correction for long-range electrostatic interactions in molecular dynamics simulations. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 148(23), 234105. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5007132
• Sidler, D., Cristòfol-Clough, M., & Riniker, S. (2017). Efficient round-trip time optimization for replica-exchange enveloping distribution sampling (RE-EDS). Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 13(6), 3020–3030. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00286
• Sidler, D., Schwaninger, A., & Riniker, S. (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), 154114. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4964781

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