Ph.d
IIT Kanpur

Significant Publications:

• V. Sivaranjana Reddy and S. Mahapatra,"Photostability of electronically excited polyacenes: a case study of vibronic coupling in the naphthalene radical cation ",
  J. Chem. Phys.,128, 091104 (2008).
• S. Faraji, H. Köppel, W. Eisfeld and S. Mahapatra, "Towards a higher-order description of Jahn-Teller coupling effects in molecular spectroscopy : the A2E" state of NO3",
  Chem. Phys (article in press).
• S. Ghanta and S. Mahapatra, " Vibronic dynamics in the low-lying coupled electronic states of methyl cyanide radical cation",
  Chem. Phys (article in press).
• B. Jayachander Rao and S. Mahapatra,"Quantum wavepacket dynamics of N(2D)+ H2 reaction",
  J. Chem. Phys. 127, 244307 (2007).
• B. Jayachander Rao and S. Mahapatra,"On the electronic non-adiabatic effects in the H+ H2 reaction dynamics ", Indian.
  J. Phys., 81 (10), 1003-1021 (2007).
• Tapta Kanchan Roy, Susanta Ghanta, Tanmoy Mondal, Banda Saritha, S. Mahapatra, and M. Durga Prasad," Conformational preferrences of mono substituted cyclhydronitrogens : A Theoretical study",
  J. Mol. Sturct. (THEOCHEM.) 822 (2007) 145.
• S. Mahapatra, W. Eisfeld and H. Köppel, "Effects of multimode Jahn-Teller coupling on the photodetachment spectrum of nitrate anion (NO3-)",
  Chem. Phys. Lett. 441, 7 (2007).
• S. Ghosal, B. Jayachander Rao and S. Mahapatra," Reactive chemical dynamics through conical intersections ",
  J. Chem. Sci., 119, 401-407 (2007).
• Z. Lan, A. Dupays, V. Vallet, S. Mahapatra and W. Domcke, "Photoinduced multi-mode quantum dynamics of pyrrole at the 1ps* - S0 conical intersections",
  J. Photochemistry and Photobiology A. 190, 177 (2007)
• S. Ghosal and S. Mahapatra, "Nonadiabatic dissociation dynamics of Cl...HD van der Waals complex initiated by electron detachment of Cl-..HD",
  J. Photochemistry and Photobiology A. 190, 161 (2007).
• B. Jayachander Rao, R. Padmanaban and S. Mahapatra, "Nonadiabatic quantum wave packet dynamics of H + H2 (HD) reactions",
  Chem. Phys. 333, 135 (2007).
• V. Sivaranjana Reddy, T. S. Venkatesan and S. Mahapatra, "Vibronic interactions in the photodetachment spectroscopy of phenide anion",
  J. Chem. Phys. 126, 074306 (2007).
• T. S. Venkatesan, S. Mahapatra, H. -D. Meyer, H. Köppel and L. S. Cederbaum, "Multimode Jahn-Teller and pseudo-Jahn-Teller interactions in the cyclopropane radical cation: complex vibronic spectra and nonradiative decay dynamics",
  J. Phys. Chem. A. 111, 1746 (2007).
• T. S. Venkatesan, S. Mahapatra, H. Köppel and L. S. Cederbaum, "On the Jahn-Teller and pseudo-Jahn-Teller effects in the photoelectron spectroscopy of cyclopropane",
  J. Mol. Struct. 838, 100 (2007).
• R. Padmanaban and S. Mahapatra,Resonances in H+HLi Scattering for nonzero total angular momentum (J>0): A time-dependent wave packet approach",
  J. Theor. Comput. Chem. 5, 871 (2006).
• R. R. Kumar, T. S. Venkatesan, and S. Mahapatra, "Multistate and multimode vibronic dynamics: the Jahn-Teller and pseudo-Jahn-Teller effects in the ethane radical cation",
  Chem. Phys. 329, 76 (2006).
• T. S. Venkatesan, K. Deepika and S. Mahapatra, "The Jahn-Teller and pseudo-Jahn-Teller effects in the anion photoelectron spectroscopy of B3 cluster",
  J. Comput. Chem. 27, 1093 (2006).
• R. Padmanaban and S. Mahapatra, "Coriolis-coupled wave packet dynamics of H+HLi reaction",
  J. Phys. Chem. A 110, 6039 (2006).
• G. M. Krishnan, S. Ghosal and S. Mahapatra , "A theoretical study of the electronic nonadiabatic transitions in the photoelectron spectroscopy of F2O ",
  J. Phys. Chem. A 110, 1022 (2006).