Martin Quack - Selected Publications#

Web of Science lists 383 publications with an h-index of 61. Martin Quack became famous early with his adiabatic channel model for unimolecular processes (635 citations to date).

1.M. Quack and F. Merkt eds “Handbook of High Resolution Spectroscopy”, 3 Volumes Wiley New York, 2011, ISBN 978-0-470-06653-9 with seven comprehensive contributions authored and coauthored by M. Quack reviewing work of his group, in particular also :M.Quack, Fundamental Symmetries and Symmetry Violations from High Resolution Spectroscopy Vol. 1, Chapt. 18, pp. 659-722

2. M.Quack ,European Review, 22 (Supplement S1), pp S50-S86, The Concept of Law and Models in Chemistry, doi:10.1017/S106279871300077X Broad historical review of fundamental concepts in chemistry including the new concept of bistructural superposition(parity) isomers of chiral molecules as developed by the author

3. M. Quack, Adv. Chem. Phys., 157, 249 – 290 (2015),On Biomolecular Homochirality as a Quasi-Fossil of the Evolution of Life(recent review including contributions from the author's group on this topic )

4. R. Prentner, M. Quack, J. Stohner, M. Willeke J. Phys. Chem. A., 119, 12805-12822 (2015), doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b08958 Wavepacket Dynamics of the Axially Chiral Molecule Cl-O-O-Cl under Coherent Radiative Excitation and Including Electroweak Parity Violation

A complete theoretical simulation of the experimnt to measure parity violation in the chiral molecule Cl-O-O-Cl.

5. P. Dietiker, E. Miloglyadov, M. Quack, A. Schneider, G. Seyfang, J. Chem. Phys., 143, 244305-1 – 244305-23 (2015) Infrared laser induced population transfer and parity selection in 14NH3: A proof of principle experiment towards detecting parity violation in chiral molecules

Detailed description of the experimental set up and test of sensitivity on the achiral molecule ammonia demonstrating a detection limit of about 100 aeV for measuring the parity violating energy difference between enantiomers of chiral molecules.

6. S. Albert, I. Bolotova, Z. Chen, C. Fábri, L. Horný, M. Quack, G. Seyfang and D. Zindel, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys (PCCP), 18, 21976-21993 (2016) High resolution GHz and THz (FTIR) spectroscopy and theory of parity violation and tunneling for 1,2-dithiine (C4H4S2) as a candidate for measuring the parity violating energy differences between enantiomers of chiral molecules

Fundamental results for this molecule as a candidate for detecting molecular parity violation

7. A. Kushnarenko, E. Miloglyadov, M. Quack, G. Seyfang, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 20, 10949-10959 (2018) Intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution in HCCCH2X (X = Cl, Br, I) measured by femtosecond pump-probe experiments in a hollow waveguide

Direct time resolved confirmation of the high resolution spectroscopic results of the author's group for the very different energy flow from different functional groups with the example of laser excitation in bichromophoric molecules carrying different functional groups in the same molecule.

8. S. Albert, Z. Chen, K. Keppler, P. Lerch, M. Quack, V. Schurig and O. Trapp, Phys. Chem .Chem. Phys. (PCCP ) 20, 3669-3675 (2019), The Gigahertz and Terahertz spectrum of monodeuterooxirane (c-C2H3DO)

Fundamental results for this molecule as a candidate for detecting the first GHz and infrared spectra of an isotopically chiral molecule in interstellar space.

9. C. Fábri, S. Albert, Z. Chen, R. Prentner, M. Quack, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 20, 7387-7394 (2018), A Molecular Quantum Switch Based on Tunneling in Meta-D-phenol C6H4DOH

Design and demonstration of the new concept of a molecular quantum switch based on the high resolution spectroscopic analysis of the title compound

10 . C. Fábri, R. Marquardt, A. Császár, and M. Quack, J. Chem. Phys. 150, 014102-1-22 (2019), Controlling tunneling in ammonia isotopomers

First fully 9-dimensional results for the quantum wavepackets of stereomutation tunnelling controlled by coherent infrared excitation including also the chiral isotopomer NHDT.