Publications

Submitted manuscripts

• Frederik Austrup, Wolfgang Häusler, Michael Lau, and Michael Thorwart
  Dynamics of Antiskyrmion shrinking
  submitted to Phys. Rev. B (2025)
  
  
• Mei Bai, Robin Santra, Sang-Kil Son, Henning Kirchberg, and Michael Thorwart
  Effective Quantum Theory of EXAFS in a Dissipative Liquid-phase Medium
  submitted to J. Phys. Chem. B (2025)
  
  
• V. Tiwari, F. Zheng, Z. Liu, P. K. Jayak, M. Thorwart, H. J. Snaith, R. J. D. Miller, H.-G. Duan, and A. Jha
  Coherent Dynamics Unraveling Exciton-carrier Correlations in Orthorhombic Lead Halide Perovskite
  submitted (2024)
  
  

Peer reviewed articles

• Jan Wiesenmüller, Gianfranco Huaccho Zavala, Michael Buck, and Michael Thorwart
  Serpent 2 simulations of the historic Haigerloch B8 nuclear reactor of 1945
  Kerntechnik, accepted for publication (2025)
  
  
• Leon Mixa, Milan Radonjic, Axel Pelster, and Michael Thorwart
  Cavity-induced quantum droplets
  Phys. Rev. Research 7, 033216 (2025)
  
  
• Florian Otterpohl, Peter Nalbach, Elisabetta Paladino, Giuseppe A. Falci, and Michael Thorwart
  Quantum 1/f noise induced relaxation in the spin-boson model
  Phys. Rev. Research, in production (2025)
  
  
• Frederik Austrup, Wolfgang Häusler, Michael Lau, and Michael Thorwart
  Dynamics of Skyrmion shrinking
  Phys. Rev. B 111, 134446 (2025)
  
  
• Leon Mixa, Milan Radonjic, Axel Pelster, and Michael Thorwart
  Engineering quantum droplet formation by cavity-induced long-range interactions
  Phys. Rev. Research 7, 023204 (2025)
  
  
• Michael Lau, Wolfgang Häusler, and Michael Thorwart
  Moving skyrmions in antiferromagnets by sublattice displacements
  Phys. Rev. B 111, 144411 (2025); (Editor's Suggestion)
  
  
• A. Tripathi, F. Gerken, P. Schmitteckert, M. Thorwart, M. Trif, and T. Posske
  Generalized Josephson effect with arbitrary periodicity in quantum magnets
  Phys. Rev. Research 7, 013272 (2025)
  
  
• Florian Otterpohl, Daniel Keefer, Shaul Mukamel, and Michael Thorwart
  Coherent ultrafast stimulated x-ray Raman spectroscopy of dissipative conical intersections
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 098001 (2024)
  
  
• Milan Radonjic, Leon Mixa, Axel Pelster, and Michael Thorwart
  Nanomechanically-induced nonequilibrium quantum phase transition to a self-organized density wave of a Bose-Einstein condensate
  Phys. Rev. Research 6, 033094 (2024)
  
  
• Ajay Jha, Pan-Pan Zhang, Vandana Tiwari, Lipeng Chen, Michael Thorwart, R.J.Dwayne Miller, and Hong-Guang Duan
  Unraveling Quantum Coherences Mediating Primary Charge Transfer Processes in Photosystem II Reaction Center
  Science Adv. 10, eadk1312 (2024)
  
  
• Leon Mixa, Hans Keßler, Andreas Hemmerich, and Michael Thorwart
  Enhancing exotic quantum fluctuations in a strongly entangled cavity BEC system
  Phys. Rev. Research 6, L012024 (2024)
  
  
• Michael Lau, Wolfgang Häusler, and Michael Thorwart
  Spin Wave Driven Skyrmions in an Antiferromagnetic Lattice
  Phys. Rev. B 109, 014435 (2024)
  
  
• Xuanchao Zhang, Zihui Liu, Ajay Jha, Xian-Ting Liang, Michael Thorwart, R. J. Dwayne Miller, and Hong-Guang Duan
  Disentangling the Complexity of Coupled Vibrations by Two-dimensional Electronic-vibrational Spectroscopy
  J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 56, 145001 (2023)
  
  
• P. Nacke, F. Otterpohl, M. Thorwart, and P. Nalbach
  Dephasing and pseudo-coherent quantum dynamics in super-Ohmic environments
  Phys. Rev. A 107, 062218 (2023)
  
  
• Detlef Ahlborn, Jörg Saur, and Michael Thorwart
  Der Windatlas Baden-Württemberg 2019 im Realitätscheck
  Forsch. Ingenieurwes., published online (2023)
  
  
• Michael Diez, Henning Kirchberg, Andreas Galler, Sebastian Schulz, Mykola Biednov, Christina Bömer, Tae-Kyu Choi, Angel Rodriguez-Fernandez, Wojciech Gawelda, Dmitry Khakhulin, Katharina Kubicek, Frederico Lima, Florian Otte, Peter Zalden, Ryan Coffee, Michael Thorwart, and Christian Bressler
  A sensitive high repetition rate arrival time monitor for X-ray Free Electron Lasers
  Nature Commun. 14, 2495 (2023)
  
  
• Gregor Gurski, Henning Kirchberg, Peter Nalbach, and Michael Thorwart
  Hydration shell effects in ac-driven single-molecule junctions
  Phys. Rev. B 107, 165413 (2023)
  
  
• M. Reidelbach, M. Bai, M. Schneeberger, M.S. Zöllner, K. Kubicek, H. Kirchberg, C. Bressler, M. Thorwart, and C. Herrmann
  Solvent dynamics of aqueous halides before and after photoionization
  J. Phys. Chem. B 127, 1399 (2023)
  
  
• Hong-Guang Duan, Ajay Jha, Lipeng Chen, Vandana Tiwari, Richard J. Cogdell, Khuram Ashraf, Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Michael Thorwart, and R. J. Dwayne Miller
  Quantum Coherent Energy Transport in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson Complex at Low Temperature
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 119, e2212630119 (2022)
  
  
• Florian Otterpohl, Peter Nalbach, and Michael Thorwart
  Hidden phase of the spin-boson model
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120406 (2022)
  
  
• Gregor Gurski, Henning Kirchberg, Peter Nalbach, and Michael Thorwart
  Single-molecule junctions sensitive to binary solvent mixtures
  Phys. Rev. B 106, 075413 (2022)
  
  
• Pia Siegl, Martin Stier, Alexander F. Schäffer, Elena Y. Vedmedenko, Thore Posske, Roland Wiesendanger, and Michael Thorwart
  Creating arbitrary sequences of mobile magnetic skyrmions and antiskyrmions
  Phys. Rev. B 106, 014421 (2022)
  
  
• Felix Gerken, Thore Posske, Shaul Mukamel, and Michael Thorwart
  Unique Signatures of Topological Phases in Two-Dimensional THz Spectroscopy
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 017401 (2022)
  
  
• Pia Siegl, Elena Vedmedenko, Martin Stier, Michael Thorwart, and Thore Posske
  Controlled Creation of Quantum Skyrmions
  Phys. Rev. Research 4, 023111 (2022)
  
  
• Niels Breckwoldt, Thore Posske, and Michael Thorwart
  Bath-induced decoherence in finite-size Majorana wires at non-zero temperature
  New J. Phys. 24, 013033 (2022)
  
  
• Fernando Rodriguez Diaz, Hong-Guang Duan, R. J. Dwayne Miller, and Michael Thorwart
  Ultrafast Charge Transfer and Relaxation at a Donor-Acceptor Interface
  J. Phys. Chem. B 125, 8869 (2021)
  
  
• Martin Bonkhoff, Kevin Jägering, Sebastian Eggert, Axel Pelster, Michael Thorwart, and Thore Posske
  Bosonic continuum theory of one-dimensional lattice anyons
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 163201 (2021)
  
  
• M. Stier, R. Strobel, S. Krause, W. Häusler, and M. Thorwart
  Role of impurity clusters for the current-driven motion of magnetic Skyrmions
  Phys. Rev. B 103, 054420 (2021)
  
  
• Alexander F. Schäffer, Pia Siegl, Martin Stier, Thore Posske, Jamal Berakdar, Michael Thorwart, Roland Wiesendanger, and Elena Y. Vedmedenko
  Rotating edge-field driven processing of chiral spin textures in racetrack devices
  Sci. Rep. 10, 20400 (2020)
  
  
• Hong-Guang Duan, Vandana Tiwari, Ajay Jha, Golibjon R. Berdiyorov, Alexey Akimov, Oriol Vendrell, Pabitra K. Nayak, Henry Snaith, Michael Thorwart, Zheng Li, Mohamed E. Madjet, and R. J. Dwayne Miller
  Photoinduced Vibrations Drive Ultrafast Structural Distortion in Lead Halide Perovskite
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142, 16569 (2020)
  
  
• Hong-Guang Duan, Ajay Jha, Xin Li, Vandana Tiwari, Hanyang Ye, Pabitra K. Nayak, Xiao-Lei Zhu, Zheng Li, Todd J. Martinez, Michael Thorwart, and R. J. Dwayne Miller
  Intermolecular Vibrations Drive Ultrafast Singlet Fission
  Science Adv. 6, eabb0052 (2020)
  
  
• Henning Kirchberg and Michael Thorwart
  Time-Resolved Probing of the Nonequilibrium Structural Solvation Dynamics by the Time-Dependent Stokes Shift
  J. Phys. Chem. B 124, 5717 (2020)
  
  
• Thore Posske, Ching-Kai Chiu, and Michael Thorwart
  Robustly emulating vortex Majorana braiding in a finite time
  Phys. Rev. Research 2, 023205 (2020)
  
  
• Jan Plettenberg, Martin Stier, and Michael Thorwart
  Steering of the Skyrmion Hall Angle By Gate Voltages
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 207202 (2020)
  
  
• Hong-Guang Duan, Peter Nalbach, R.J. Dwayne Miller, and Michael Thorwart
  Intramolecular vibrations enhance quantum efficiency of excitonic energy transfer
  Photosynth. Res. 144, 137 (2020)
  
  
• Henning Kirchberg, Michael Thorwart, and Abraham Nitzan
  Charge Transfer Through Redox Molecular Junctions in Non-Equilibrated Solvents
  J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11, 1729 (2020)
  
  
• Jianshu Cao, Richard J. Cogdell, David F. Coker, Hong-Guang Duan, Jürgen Hauer, Ulrich Kleinekathöfer, Thomas L. C. Jansen, Tomáš Mančal, R. J. Dwayne Miller, Jennifer P. Ogilvie, Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Thomas Renger, Howe-Siang Tan, Roel Tempelaar, Michael Thorwart, Erling Thyrhaug, Sebastian Westenhoff, Donatas Zigmantas
  Quantum Biology Revisited
  Science Adv. 6, eaaz4888 (2020)
  
  
• Hong-Guang Duan, Ajay Jha, Vandana Tiwari, R. J. Dwayne Miller, and Michael Thorwart
  Dissociation and Localization Dynamics of Charge Transfer Excitons at a Donor-Acceptor Interface
  Chem. Phys. 528, 110525 (2020)
  
  
• Niklas Mann, Axel Pelster, and Michael Thorwart
  Tuning the Order of the Nonequilibrium Quantum Phase Transition in a Hybrid Atom-Optomechanical System
  New J. Phys. 21, 113037 (2019)
  
  
• Hong-Guang Duan, Michael Thorwart, and R. J. Dwayne Miller
  Does electronic coherence enhance anticorrelated pigment vibrations under realistic conditions?
  J. Chem. Phys. 151, 114115 (2019)
  
  
• Hong-Guang Duan, Peter Nalbach, R. J. Dwayne Miller, and Michael Thorwart
  Ultrafast energy transfer in excitonically-coupled molecules induced by a nonlocal Peierls phonon
  J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 10, 1206 (2019)
  
  
• Henning Kirchberg, Peter Nalbach, Christian Bressler, and Michael Thorwart
  Spectroscopic Signatures of the Dynamical Hydrophobic Solvation Shell Formation
  J. Phys. Chem. B 123, 2106 (2019)
  
  
• Thore Posske and Michael Thorwart
  Winding up quantum spin helices: How avoided level crossings exile classical topological protection
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 097204 (2019)
  
  
• Martin Stier, Jenny Erdmann, and Michael Thorwart
  Dragging of magnetic domain walls by interlayer exchange
  Phys. Status Solidi B 1800621 (2019)
  
  
• Niklas Mann and Michael Thorwart
  Enhancing nanomechanical squeezing by atomic interactions in a hybrid atom-optomechanical system
  Phys. Rev. A 98, 063804 (2018)
  
  
• Hong-Guang Duan, Da-Long Qi, Zhen-Rong Sun, R. J. Dwayne Miller, and Michael Thorwart
  Signature of the geometric phase in the wave packet dynamics on hypersurfaces
  Chem. Phys. 515, 21 (2018)
  
  
• Hermann Grabert and Michael Thorwart
  Quantum mechanical response to a driven Caldeira-Leggett bath
  Phys. Rev. E 98, 012122 (2018)
  
  
• Vicente Leyton, Stephan Weiss, and Michael Thorwart
  Antiresonant quantum transport in ac driven molecular nanojunctions
  Phys. Rev. B 97, 214303 (2018)
  
  
• Peter Zalden, Liwei Song, Xiaojun Wu, Haoyu Huang, Frederike Ahr, Oliver D. Mücke, Joscha Reichert, Michael Thorwart, Pankaj Kr. Mishra, Ralph Welsch, Robin Santra, Franz X. Kärtner, and Christian Bressler
  Molecular polarizability anisotropy of liquid water revealed by terahertz-induced transient orientation
  Nature Comm. 9, 2142 (2018)
  
  
• Howon Kim, Alexandra Palacio-Morales, Thore Posske, Levente Rózsa, László Szunyogh, Michael Thorwart, and Roland Wiesendanger
  Towards the design of Majorana bound states in artificially constructed magnetic atom chains on elemental superconductors
  Science Adv. 4 (5), eaar5251 (2018)
  
  
• Henning Kirchberg, Peter Nalbach, and Michael Thorwart
  Nonequilibrium quantum solvation with a time-dependent Onsager cavity
  J. Chem. Phys. 148, 164301 (2018)
  
  
• Ajay Jha, Hong-Guang Duan, Vandana Tiwari, Michael Thorwart, and R. J. Dwayne Miller
  Origin of Poor Doping Efficiency in Solution Processed Organic Semiconductors
  Chem. Sci. 9, 4468 (2018)
  
  
• Niklas Mann, M. Reza Bakhtiari, Axel Pelster, and Michael Thorwart
  Nonequilibrium quantum phase transition in a hybrid atom-optomechanical system
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063605 (2018)
  
  
• Ajay Jha, Hong-Guang Duan, Vandana Tiwari, Pabitra Nayak, Henry J. Snaith, Michael Thorwart, and R. J. Dwayne Miller
  Direct Observation of the Coherent Exciton Dissociation in Lead-iodide Perovskite by 2D Electronic Spectroscopy
  ACS Photonics 5, 852 (2018)
  
  
• Martin Stier, Alexander Neumann, André Philippi-Kobs, Hans Peter Oepen, and Michael Thorwart
  Implications of a temperature-dependent magnetic anisotropy for superparamagnetic switching
  J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 447, 96 (2018)
  
  
• Thore Posske, Björn Trauzettel, and Michael Thorwart
  Second quantization of Leinaas-Myrheim anyons in one dimension and their relation to the Lieb-Liniger model
  Phys. Rev. B 96, 195422 (2017), arXiv:1609.06314
  
  
• Hong-Guang Duan, Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Emilie Wientjes, Roberta Croce, Michael Thorwart, and R. J. Dwayne Miller
  Primary charge separation in the reaction center revealed by two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy
  Sci. Rep. 7, 12347 (2017)
  
  
• Dalong Qi, Hong-Guang Duan, Zhenrong Sun, R. J. Dwayne Miller, and Michael Thorwart
  Tracking an electronic wave packet in the vicinity of a conical intersection
  J. Chem. Phys. 147, 074101 (2017)
  
  
• Hong-Guang Duan, Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Richard Cogdell, Khuram Ashraf, Amy L. Stevens, Michael Thorwart, and R. J. Dwayne Miller
  Nature does not rely on long-lived electronic quantum coherence for photosynthetic energy transfer
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 114, 8493 (2017)
  
  
• Martin Stier, Wolfgang Häusler, Thore Posske, Gregor Gurski, and Michael Thorwart
  Skyrmion-Antiskyrmion pair creation by in-plane currents
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 267203 (2017)
  
  
• Martina Pola, Michal Kochman, Alessandra Picchiotti, Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, R.J. Dwayne Miller, and Michael Thorwart
  Linear photoabsorption spectra and vertical excitation energies of microsolvated DNA nucleobases in aqueous solution
  J. Theor. Comput. Chem 16, 1750028 (2017)
  
  
• N. Mann, M. Reza Bakhtiari, F. Massel, A. Pelster, and M. Thorwart
  Driven Bose-Hubbard Model with a Parametrically Modulated Harmonic Trap
  Phys. Rev. A 95, 043604 (2017), arXiv:1612.04967
  
  
• Peter Nalbach, Samaneh Javanbakht, Christopher Stahl, and Michael Thorwart
  Stueckelberg oscillations in a two-state two-path model of a conical intersection
  Ann. Phys. (Berlin) 529, 1600147 (2017)
  
  
• Niklas Mann, Jochen Brüggemann, and Michael Thorwart
  Dissipative dynamics of a quantum two-state system in presence of nonequilibrium quantum noise
  Eur. Phys. J. B 89, 279 (2016), arXiv:1610.03062
  
  
• Hong-Guang Duan, Moritz Frey, Michael Thorwart, and Peter Nalbach
  2D photon echos reveal non-Markovian energy transfer in biomolecules
  Phys. Rev. E 94, 052146 (2016)
  
  
• Andreas Komnik and Michael Thorwart
  BCS theory of driven superconductivity
  Eur. Phys. J. B 89, 244 (2016)
  
  see also EPJ B Highlight "When crystal vibrations' inner clock drives superconductivity"
  
  phys.org: "When crystal vibrations' inner clock drives superconductivity"
  
  Springer ScienceDaily. "When crystal vibrations' inner clock drives superconductivity." ScienceDaily, 9 November 2016.
  
  
• J. Reichert, P. Nalbach, and M. Thorwart
  Dynamics of a quantum two-state system in a linearly driven quantum bath
  Phys. Rev. A 94, 032127 (2016)
  
  
• Hong-Guang Duan, R.J. Dwayne Miller, and Michael Thorwart
  Impact of Vibrational Coherence on the Quantum Yield at a Conical Intersection
  J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7, 3491 (2016)
  
  
• Hermann Grabert, Peter Nalbach, Joscha Reichert, and Michael Thorwart
  Nonequilibrium Response of Nanosystems Coupled to Driven Quantum Baths
  J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7, 2015 (2016)
  
  
• J. Brüggemann, S. Weiss, P. Nalbach, and M. Thorwart
  Exploiting the magnetomechanical interaction for cooling magnetic molecular junctions by spin-polarized currents
  New J. Phys. 18, 023026 (2016)
  
  
• Hong-Guang Duan and Michael Thorwart
  Quantum Mechanical Wavepacket Dynamics at a Conical Intersection with Strong Vibrational Dissipation
  J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7, 382 (2016)
  
  
• M. Stier and M. Thorwart
  Nonlocal spin torques in Rashba quantum wires with steep magnetic textures
  Phys. Rev. B 92, 220406(R) (2015)
  
  
• J. Klinder, H. Keßler, M. Reza Bakhtiari, M. Thorwart, and A. Hemmerich
  Observation of a superradiant Mott insulator in the Dicke-Hubbard model
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 230403 (2015)
  
  
• Hong-Guang Duan, Arend G. Dijkstra, Peter Nalbach, and Michael Thorwart
  An efficient tool to calculate two-dimensional optical spectra for photoactive molecular complexes
  Phys. Rev. E 92, 042708 (2015), arXiv:1506.08368
  
  
• Hong-Guang Duan, Amy Stevens, Peter Nalbach, Michael Thorwart, Valentyn Prokhorenko, and R.J. Dwayne Miller
  Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy of Light Harvesting Complex II at ambient temperature: a joint experimental and theoretical study
  J. Phys. Chem. B 119, 12017 (2015)
  
  
• Hong-Guang Duan, Peter Nalbach, Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Shaul Mukamel, and Michael Thorwart
  On the nature of oscillations in two-dimensional spectra of excitonically-coupled molecular systems
  New J. Phys. 17, 072002 (2015) (Fast Track Communication)
  
  
• S. Weiss, J. Brüggemann, and M. Thorwart
  Spin-vibronics in interacting nonmagnetic molecular nanojunctions
  Phys. Rev. B 92, 045431 (2015), arXiv:1505.03361
  
  
• S. Javanbakht, P. Nalbach, and M. Thorwart
  Dissipative Landau-Zener quantum dynamics with transversal and longitudinal noise
  Phys. Rev. A 91, 052103 (2015)
  
  
• Gotthold Fläschner, Kai Ruschmeier, Alexander Schwarz, Reza Bakhtiari, Michael Thorwart, and Roland Wiesendanger
  Temperature and non-linear response of cantilever-type mechanical oscillators used in atomic force microscopes with interferometric detection
  Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 123102 (2015)
  
  
• M. R. Bakhtiari, A. Hemmerich, H. Ritsch, and M. Thorwart
  Nonequilibrium Dicke Quantum Phase Transition of an Ultracold Gas in an Optical Cavity
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 123601 (2015), arXiv:1410.5735
  
  
• P. Nalbach, C. A. Mujica-Martinez, and M. Thorwart
  Vibronic speed-up of the excitation energy transfer in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex
  Phys. Rev. E 91, 022706 (2015); arXiv:1311.6363
  
  
• N. Mann, P. Nalbach, S. Mukamel, and M. Thorwart
  Probing chirality fluctuations in molecules by nonlinear optical spectroscopy
  J. Chem. Phys. 141, 234305 (2014), arXiv:1412.1263
  
  
• J. Brüggemann, S. Weiss, P. Nalbach, and M. Thorwart
  Cooling a magnetic nanoisland by spin-polarized currents
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 076602 (2014), arXiv:1401.5724
  
  highlighted in Physics Katherine Kornei, Synopsis: Spin Currents Cool a Quantum Dot, Physics August 14, 2014
  highlighted in Popular Mechanics William Herkewitz, How the Computer of the Future Keeps its Cool, Popular Mechanics August 25, 2014
  
  
• Martin Stier, Marcus Creutzburg, and Michael Thorwart
  Rashba induced chirality switching of domain walls and suppression of the Walker breakdown
  Phys. Rev. B 90, 014430 (2014), arXiv:1402.7175
  
  
• P. Nalbach, A.J.A. Achner, M. Frey, M. Grosser, C. Bressler, and M. Thorwart
  Hydration shell effects in the relaxation dynamics of photoexcited Fe-II complexes in water
  J. Chem. Phys. 141, 044304 (2014), arXiv:1404.2754
  
  
• Vicente Leyton, Maryam Roghani, Vittorio Peano, and Michael Thorwart
  Photon-assisted confinement-induced resonances for ultracold atoms
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 233201 (2014), arXiv:1403.0348
  
  
• C. Mujica-Martinez, P. Nalbach, and M. Thorwart
  Quantification of non-Markovian effects in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex
  Phys. Rev. E 88, 062719 (2013)
  
  
• D. Pagel, P. Nalbach, A. Alvermann, H. Fehske, and M. Thorwart
  Nonequilibrium quantum fluctuation relations for harmonic systems in nonthermal environments
  New J. Phys. 15 , 105008 (2013)
  
  
• S. Weiss, R. Hützen, D. Becker, J.Eckel, R. Egger, and M. Thorwart
  Iterative path integral summation for nonequilibrium quantum transport
  Phys. Status Solidi B 250, 2298-2314 (2013) (Feature Article)
  
  
• C.A. Mujica-Martinez, P. Nalbach and M. Thorwart
  Organic pi-conjugated copolymers as molecular charge qubits
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 016802 (2013)
  
  
• M. Stier, R. Egger, and M. Thorwart
  Nonequilibrium Rashba field driven domain wall motion in ferromagnetic nanowires
  Phys. Rev. B 87, 184415 (2013), arXiv:1301.0389
  
  
• P. Nalbach and M. Thorwart
  Enhanced quantum efficiency of light-harvesting in a biomolecular quantum “steam engine”
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110, 2693 (2013) (invited commentary)
  
  
• P. Nalbach and M. Thorwart
  Crossover from coherent to incoherent quantum dynamics due to sub-Ohmic dephasing
  Phys. Rev. B 87, 014116 (2013)
  
  
• V. Leyton, V. Peano and M. Thorwart
  Quantum noise properties of multiphoton transitions in driven nonlinear resonators
  New J. Phys. 14 , 093024 (2012); arXiv:1205.6797
  
  
• D. Becker, S. Weiss, M. Thorwart, and D. Pfannkuche
  Nonequilibrium quantum dynamics of the magnetic Anderson model
  New J. Phys. 14, 073049 (2012); arXiv:1205.2462
  
  
• P. Nalbach, I. Pugliesi, H. Langhals, and M. Thorwart
  Noise-induced Förster resonant energy transfer between orthogonal dipoles in photoexcited molecules
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 218302 (2012)
  
  
• P. Nalbach and M. Thorwart
  The role of discrete molecular modes in the coherent exciton dynamics in FMO
  J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys, 45, 154009 (2012) (Invited paper to the Special Issue on Loss of Coherence and Memory Effects in Quantum Dynamics)
  
  
• R. Hützen, S. Weiss, M. Thorwart, and R. Egger
  Iterative summation of path integrals for nonequilibrium molecular quantum transport
  Phys. Rev. B 85, 121408 (R) (2012)
  
  
• P. Nalbach, D. Braun, and M. Thorwart
  Exciton transfer dynamics and quantumness of energy transfer in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex
  Phys. Rev. E 84, 041926 (2011)
  
  
• V. Leyton, M. Thorwart, and V. Peano
  Qubit state detection using the quantum Duffing oscillator
  Phys. Rev. B 84, 134501 (2011)
  
  
• P. Nalbach, A. Ishizaki, G.R Fleming, and M. Thorwart
  Iterative path-integral algorithm versus cumulant time-nonlocal master equation approach for the dissipative biomolecular exciton transport
  New J. Phys. 13, 063040 (2011)
  
  
• V. Peano and M. Thorwart
  Quasienergy description of the driven Jaynes-Cummings model
  Phys. Rev. B 82, 155129 (2010)
  
  
• P. Nalbach, J. Eckel, and M. Thorwart
  Quantum coherent biomolecular energy transfer with spatially correlated fluctuations
  New J. Phys. Focus Issue on "Quantum Effects and Noise in Biomolecules" (invited) 12, 065043 (2010)
  
  
• P. Nalbach and M. Thorwart
  Competition between relaxation and external driving in the dissipative Landau-Zener problem
  Chem. Phys. 375, 234 (2010); Special Issue (invited)
  
  
• P. Nalbach and M. Thorwart
  Multiphonon transitions in the biomolecular energy transfer dynamics
  J. Chem. Phys. 132, 194111 (2010); arxiv:0911.5590
  
  
• J. Eckel, F. Heidrich-Meisner, S. G. Jakobs, M. Thorwart, M. Pletyukhov, and R. Egger
  Comparative study of theoretical methods for nonequilibrium quantum transport
  New J. Phys. 12, 043042 (2010); arxiv:1001.3773
  
  
• P. Nalbach and M. Thorwart
  Ultraslow quantum dynamics in a sub-Ohmic heat bath
  Phys. Rev. B 81, 054308 (2010); arxiv:0908.2749
  
  
• V. Peano and M. Thorwart
  Dynamical bistability in the driven circuit QED
  Europhys. Lett. 89, 17008 (2010); arXiv:0903.2338
  
  
• P. Nalbach and M. Thorwart
  Landau-Zener transitions in a dissipative environment: Numerically exact results
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 220401 (2009); arxiv:0906.1473
  
  
• M. Thorwart, J. Eckel, J.H. Reina, P. Nalbach, and S. Weiss
  Enhanced quantum entanglement in the non-Markovian dynamics of biomolecular excitons
  Chem. Phys. Lett. 478, 234 (2009); arXiv:0808.2906
  
  
• J. Eckel, J.H. Reina, and M. Thorwart
  Coherent control of an effective two-level system in a non-Markovian biomolecular environment
  New J. Phys. 11, 085001 (2009); arxiv:0903.2936
  
  
• M. Thorwart, R. Egger, and A.O. Gogolin
  Interaction-induced harmonic frequency mixing in quantum dots
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 036806 (2008)
  
  
• S. Weiss, J. Eckel, M. Thorwart, and R. Egger
  Iterative real-time path integral approach to nonequilibrium quantum transport
  Phys. Rev. B 77, 195316 (2008), ibid. 79, 249901(E) (2009); arXiv:0802.3374
  
  
• K. Krutitsky, M. Thorwart, R. Egger, and R. Graham
  Ultracold bosons in lattices with binary disorder
  Phys. Rev. A 77, 053609 (2008); arXiv:0801.2343
  
  
• M. Thorwart and R. Egger
  Current-induced non-adiabatic spin torques and domain wall motion with spin relaxation
  Phys. Rev. B 76, 214418 (2007)
  
  
• F. Nesi, E. Paladino, M. Thorwart, and M. Grifoni
  Spin-boson dynamics: A unified approach from weak to strong coupling
  Europhys. Lett. 80, 40005 (2007); cond-mat/0612396
  
  
• F. Nesi, E. Paladino, M. Thorwart, and M. Grifoni
  Spin-boson dynamics beyond conventional perturbation theories
  Phys. Rev. B 76, 155323 (2007)
  
  
• J. Eckel, S. Weiss, and M. Thorwart
  Phonon-induced decoherence and dissipation in donor-based charge qubits
  Eur. Phys. J. B 53, 91 (2006)
  
  
• S. Weiss, M. Thorwart, and R. Egger
  Charge qubit entanglement in double quantum dots
  Europhys. Lett. 76, 905 (2006), see also cond-mat/0601699
  
  
• V. Peano and M. Thorwart
  Nonlinear response of a driven vibrating nanobeam in the quantum regime
  New J. Phys. (Focus Issue on Nanoelectromechanical Systems) 8, 21 (2006)
  
  
• V. Peano, M. Thorwart, C. Mora, and R. Egger
  Confinement-induced resonances for a two-component ultracold atom gas in arbitrary quasi-one-dimensional traps
  New J. Phys. 7, 192 (2005)
  
  
• V. Peano, M. Thorwart, A. Kasper, and R. Egger
  Nanoscale atomic waveguides with suspended carbon nanotubes
  Appl. Phys. B 81, 1075-1080 (2005); quant-ph/0505210
  
  
• M. Thorwart, J. Eckel and E.R. Mucciolo
  Non-Markovian dynamics of double quantum dot charge qubits due to acoustic phonons
  Phys. Rev. B. 72, 235320 (2005); see also cond-mat/0505621
  
  
• V. Peano and M. Thorwart
  Dynamics of the quantum Duffing oscillator in the driving induced bistable regime
  Chem. Phys. 322, 135 (2006) (Invited contribution to the Special Issue on Real-time dynamics of complex quantum systems, ed. by J. Ankerhold and E. Pollak); see also cond-mat/0505671
  
  
• M. C. Goorden, M. Thorwart, and M. Grifoni
  Spectroscopy of a driven solid-state qubit coupled to a structured environment
  Eur. Phys. J. B 45, 405 (2005); see also cond-mat/0412194
  
  
• A. De Martino, M. Thorwart, R. Egger, and R. Graham
  Exact results for one-dimensional disordered bosons with strong repulsion
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 060402 (2005)
  
  
• M. Thorwart, R. Egger, and M. Grifoni
  Correlated sequential tunneling through a double barrier for interacting one-dimensional electrons
  Phys. Rev. B 72, 035330 (2005)
  
  
• M. C. Goorden, M. Thorwart, and M. Grifoni
  Entanglement spectroscopy of a driven solid-state qubit and its detector
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 267005 (2004)
  
  
• V. Peano and M. Thorwart
  Macroscopic quantum effects in a strongly driven nanomechanical resonator
  Phys. Rev. B 70, 235401 (2004)
  
  
• S. Saito, M. Thorwart, H. Tanaka, M. Ueda, H. Nakano, K. Semba, and H. Takayanagi
  Multiphoton transitions in a macroscopic quantum two-state system
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 037001 (2004)
  
  
• M. Thorwart, E. Paladino, and M. Grifoni
  Dynamics of the spin-boson model with a structured environment
  Chem. Phys. 296, 333-344 (2004) (Invited contribution to the Special Issue on The Spin-Boson Problem: From Electron Transfer to Quantum Computing, ed. by H. Grabert and A. Nitzan). (see also cond-mat/0310140)
  
  
• M. Thorwart and M. Grifoni
  Luttinger correlations and resonant tunneling in carbon nanotube intramolecular dots
  Chem. Phys. 281, 477-487 (2002) (Invited contribution to the Special Issue on Transport in Molecular Wires, ed. by P. Hänggi, M. Ratner, and S. Yaliraki)
  
  
• M. Thorwart, M. Grifoni, G. Cuniberti, H. Postma, and C. Dekker
  Correlated tunneling in intramolecular carbon nanotube quantum dots
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 196402 (2002); and cond-mat/0210511
  
  
• M. Thorwart and P. Hänggi
  Decoherence and dissipation during a quantum XOR gate operation
  Phys. Rev. A 65, 012309 (2002); and cond-mat/0104513
  
  
• M. Thorwart, M. Grifoni and P. Hänggi
  Strong coupling theory for tunneling and vibrational relaxation in driven bistable systems
  Ann. Phys. (N.Y.) 293, 15-66 (2001) and cond-mat/0102038
  
  
• M. Thorwart, L. Hartmann, I. Goychuk, and P. Hänggi
  Controlling decoherence of a two-level-atom in a lossy cavity
  J. Mod. Opt. 47, 2905 (2000) and quant-ph/0003029
  
  
• M. Thorwart, P. Reimann and P. Hänggi
  Iterative algorithm versus analytic solutions of the parametrically driven dissipative quantum harmonic oscillator
  Phys. Rev. E 62, 5808 (2000) and cond-mat/0001451
  
  
• M. Thorwart, M. Grifoni and P. Hänggi
  Strong coupling theory for driven tunneling and vibrational relaxation
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 860 (2000) and quant-ph/9912024
  
  
• M. Thorwart, P. Reimann, P. Jung, and R.F. Fox
  Quantum Hysteresis and Resonant Tunneling in Bistable Systems
  Chem. Phys. 235, 61-80 (1998) (Invited contribution to the Special Issue of Chemical Physics on Dynamical Processes in Condensed Phases, ed. by P. Talkner, E. Pollak and A.M. Berezhkovskii)
  
  
• M. Thorwart, P. Reimann, P. Jung and R.F. Fox
  Quantum Steps in Hysteresis Loops
  Phys. Lett. A 239, 233-238 (1998)
  
  
• M. Thorwart and P. Jung
  Dynamical Hysteresis in Bistable Quantum Systems
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2503 (1997)
  
  

Editorials

• D. Bercioux, R. Egger, P. Hänggi, and M. Thorwart
  Focus on nonequilibrium fluctuation relations: from classical to quantum
  New J. Phys. 17, 020201 (2015)
  
  

Books

• Quantum Efficiency in Complex Systems, Part I: Biomolecular Systems
  Semiconductors and Semimetals Vol. 83, E. Weber, M. Thorwart, and U. Würfel (eds.), Academic Press 2010
  
  
• Quantum Efficiency in Complex Systems, Part II: From Molecular Aggregates to Organic Solar Cells
  Semiconductors and Semimetals Vol. 85, U. Würfel, M. Thorwart, and E. Weber (eds.), Academic Press 2011
  
  

Book chapters

• M. Stier and M. Thorwart
  Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics of Current-Driven Magnetic Domain Walls and Skyrmions
  in Atomic- and Nanoscale Magnetism, NanoScience and Technology, R. Wiesendanger (ed.), (Springer Nature, Cham, 2018)
  
  
• P. Nalbach and M. Thorwart
  Quantum coherence and entanglement in photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes
  in Quantum Efficiency in Complex Systems I, Semiconductors and Semimetals, E. Weber, M. Thorwart, and U. Würfel (eds.), Academic Press 2010
  
  
• M. Thorwart, R. Egger, and M. Grifoni
  Transport through intrinsic quantum dots in interacting carbon nanotubes
  in Introducing Molecular Electronics, Springer Lect. Notes Phys. Vol. 680 (p.229-249) (invited), G. Cuniberti, G. Fagas and K. Richter (eds.), Berlin, Springer 2005
  
  

Proceedings

• C. Mujica-Martinez, P. Nalbach and M. Thorwart
  Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics of Biomolecular Excitons
  in Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems: From Nano to Macro, Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop "New Challenges in Complex System Physics", Samarkand May 2013, Springer "NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - C: Environmental Security" (Springer, Berlin 2014)
  
  
• P. Nalbach and M. Thorwart
  Quantum Coherence in Photosynthetic Exciton Dynamics
  J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 376, 012025 (2012)
  
  
• D. Becker, S. Weiss, J. Eckel, M. Thorwart, and D. Pfannkuche
  Time-dependent transport through a correlated quantum dot with magnetic impurity
  J. Phys.: Conf. Series 245, 012021 (2010)
  
  
• C.A. Mujica Martinez, J.C. Arce, J.H. Reina, and M. Thorwart
  Molecular architectures based on pi-conjugated block copolymers for global quantum computation
  J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 167, 012061 (2009); arXiv:0904.2351
  
  
• M. Thorwart, R. Egger, and M. Grifoni
  Correlated sequential tunneling in Luttinger liquid quantum dots
  Phys. Status Solidi B 242 (2), 218 (2005)
  
  
• M. Grifoni, M. Thorwart and P. Hänggi
  Tunneling control of a dissipative double-doublet-system by external fields
  in Path integrals from peV to TeV: 40 years after Feynman's paper, Conference Proceedings - Firenze 1998, eds. R. Casalbuoni, R. Giachetti, V. Tognetti, R. Vaia, P. Verruchi, (World Scientific, Singapore 1999)
  
  
• M. Thorwart, P. Reimann, and P. Jung
  Quantum Steps in Hysteresis Loops
  in Applied Nonlinear Dynamics and Stochastic Systems near the Millennium (San Diego, CA July 1997), AIP Conference Proceedings 411, ed. J.B. Kadtke, A. Bulsara, (Woodbury, NY, AIP 1997), (p. 145-150)
  
  

Popular

• M. Thorwart and E. Fechter
  Haigerloch Cave Survived the War
  Invited comment in Phys. Today 54 (4), 93 (2001)
  
  

Manuscripts

• V. Peano, M. Thorwart, C. Mora, and R. Egger
  Shape resonances for ultracold atom gases in carbon nanotube waveguides
  unpublished, cond-mat/0411517
  
  

Theses

• Michael Thorwart
  Nanoscale quantum systems in incoherent environments
  Habilitationsschrift, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät Oktober 2005 (eingereicht), Januar 2006 (angenommen)
  
  
• Michael Thorwart
  Tunneling and vibrational relaxation in driven multilevel systems
  Dissertation, Universität Augsburg, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät Juli 2000 Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2000; (ISBN 3-8265-8271-3)
  
  
• M. Thorwart
  Dynamische Hysterese in bistabilen Quantensystemen
  Diplomarbeit, Universität Tübingen, Fakultät für Physik Juli 1996