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. and Rubio, A. (2025) 'Collectively-modified intermolecular electron correlations : the connection of polaritonic chemistry and spin glass physics', Chemical Reviews, 126(1), pp. 4–27. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00711.
• Sidler, D. et al. (2025) 'Density-functional tight binding meets Maxwell : unraveling the mysteries of (strong) light–matter coupling efficiently', Nanophotonics, 14(27), pp. 4941–4955. doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2025-0453.
• Horak, J. et al. (2025) 'Analytic model reveals local molecular polarizability changes induced by collective strong coupling in optical cavities', Physical Review Research, 7(013242). doi: 10.1103/physrevresearch.7.013242.
• Bustamante, C. M. et al. (2024) 'The relevance of degenerate states in chiral polaritonics', The Journal of Chemical Physics, 161(24), p. 244101. doi: 10.1063/5.0235935.
• Sidler, D. et al. (2024) 'Unraveling a cavity-induced molecular polarization mechanism from collective vibrational strong coupling', The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 15(19), pp. 5208–5214. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c00913.
• Sidler, D., Ruggenthaler, M. and 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), pp. 8801–8814. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00092.
• Ruggenthaler, M., Sidler, D. and Rubio, A. (2023) 'Understanding polaritonic chemistry from ab initio quantum electrodynamics', Chemical Reviews, 123(19), pp. 11191–11229. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00788.
• Schnappinger, T. et al. (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. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01842.
• Sidler, D., Ruggenthaler, M. and Rubio, A. (2023) 'Protected spin-orbit induced absorption divergence in distorted Landau levels', Physical Review B, 107(21), p. 214409. doi: 10.1103/physrevb.107.214409.
• Sidler, D. et al. (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), p. 043059. doi: 10.1103/physrevresearch.4.043059.
• Sidler, D. et al. (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), p. 230901. doi: 10.1063/5.0094956.
• Sidler, D. et al. (2020) 'Polaritonic chemistry : collective strong coupling implies strong local modification of chemical properties', The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 12(1), pp. 508–516. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03436.
• Jouvet, G. et al. (2020) 'Mapping the age of ice of Gauligletscher combining surface radionuclide contamination and ice flow modeling', The Cryosphere, 14(11), pp. 4233–4251. doi: 10.5194/tc-14-4233-2020.
• Peller, D. et al. (2020) 'Quantitative sampling of atomic-scale electromagnetic waveforms', Nature Photonics, 15(2), pp. 143–147. doi: 10.1038/s41566-020-00720-8.
• Sidler, D. et al. (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. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01556.
• Sidler, D. et al. (2019) 'Density artefacts at interfaces caused by multiple time-step effects in molecular dynamics simulations', F1000Research, 7(1745). doi: 10.12688/f1000research.16715.3.
• Sidler, D., Bleiziffer, P. and Riniker, S. (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. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b01156.
• Sidler, D. and Riniker, S. (2019) 'Fast Nosé–Hoover thermostat : molecular dynamics in quasi-thermodynamic equilibrium', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21(11), pp. 6059–6070. doi: 10.1039/c8cp06800c.
• Sidler, D. et al. (2018) 'Anisotropic reaction field correction for long-range electrostatic interactions in molecular dynamics simulations', The Journal of Chemical Physics, 148(23), p. 234105. doi: 10.1063/1.5007132.
• Sidler, D., Cristòfol-Clough, M. and Riniker, S. (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. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00286.
• Sidler, D., Schwaninger, A. and 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), p. 154114. doi: 10.1063/1.4964781.

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