PUBLICATIONS
  1. "Three-state conical intersections", S. Matsika, Chapter in "Conical Intersections: Theory, Computation and Experiment", World Scientific Publishing Company, February 2011
  2. "Pathways for fluorescence quenching in 2-aminopurine pi-stacked with pyrimidine nucleobases", J.X. Liang and S. Matsika, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., accepted, (2011) doi:10.1021/ja2007998
  3. "Following Ultrafast Radiationless Relaxation Dynamics With Strong Field Dissociative Ionization: A Comparison Between Adenine, Uracil, and Cytosine", M. Kotur, T. Weinacht, C. Zhou, and S. Matsika, IEEE Journal of selected topics in Quantum Electronics, accepted, (2011) doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2107892
  4. "Nonadiabatic Events and Conical Intersections", S. Matsika and P. Krause, Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem., 62, 621 - 643, (2011) doi:10.1146/annurev-physchem-032210-103450
  5. "Photophysical pathways of cytosine in aqueous solution", K. A. Kistler and S. Matsika, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 12, 5024-5031, (2010) doi:10.1039/b926125g
  6. "Excited State Energies and Electronic Couplings of DNA Base Dimers", C. R. Kozak, K. A. Kistler, Z. Lu and S. Matsika, J. Phys. Chem. B, 114, 1674 - 1683, (2010) doi:10.1021/jp9072697
  7. "Change in Electronic Structure upon Optical Excitation of 8-Vinyladenosine: An Experimental and Theoretical Study", R. Stanley, G. Kodali, K. A. Kistler, M. Narayanan and S. Matsika, J. Phys. Chem. A, 114, 256 - 267, (2010) doi:10.1021/jp908055h
  8. "Solvatochromic Shifts of Uracil and Cytosine Using a Combined Multireference Configuration Interaction/ Molecular Dynamics Approach and the Fragment Molecular Orbital Method'', K. A. Kistler and S. Matsika, J. Phys. Chem. A, 113, 12396 - 12403, (2009) doi:10.1021/jp901601u
  9. "Two-Dimensional Ultrafast Fourier Transform Spectroscopy in the Deep Ultraviolet", C. H. Tseng, S. Matsika and T. C. Weinacht, Optics Express,17, 18788-18793, (2009)
  10. "Closed-Loop Learning Control of Isomerization using Shaped Ultrafast Laser Pulses in the Deep Ultraviolet'', M. Kotur, T. Weinacht, B. J. Pearson and S. Matsika J. Chem. Phys., 130, 134311, (2009) doi:10.1063/1.3103486
  11. "State-resolved distribution of OH X 2 Pi products arising from electronic quenching of OH A2 Sigma by N2 ", Logan P. Dempsey, Timothy D. Sechler, Craig Murray, Marsha Lester, and Spiridoula Matsika J. Chem. Phys., 130, 104307, (2009) doi:10.1063/1.3077027
  12. "An Ab Initio Study of Substituent Effects on the Excited States of Purine Derivatives", E. Mburu and S. Matsika, J. Phys. Chem. A, 112, 12485-12491, (2008) doi:10.1021/jp807145c
  13. "On the Electronically Excited States of Uracil", E. Epifanovsky, K. Kowalski, P.-D. Fang, M. Valiev, S. Matsika, A. I. Krylov, J. Phys. Chem. A, 112, 9983-9992, (2008) doi:10.1021/jp803758q
  14. "Three-State Conical Intersections in Cytosine and Pyrimidinone Bases", K. A. Kistler and S. Matsika, J. Chem. Phys., 128, 215102, (2008) doi:10.1063/1.2932102
  15. "Interpreting Ultrafast Molecular Fragmentation Dynamics with ab initio Calculations", C. Trallero, B. J. Pearson, T. Weinacht, K. Gilliard and S. Matsika, J. Chem. Phys., 128, 124107, (2008) doi:10.1063/1.2850524
  16. ``Two and three state conical intersections in uracil cation radical", S. Matsika, Chem. Phys., 349,356-362, (2008) (invited article for the special issue in honor of H. Lischka) doi:10.1016/j.chemphys.2008.02.027
  17. "2-Aminopurine Excited State Electronic Structure Measure by Stark Spectroscopy", G. Kodali, K. A. Kistler, S. Matsika and R. J. Stanley, J. Chem. Phys. B, 112, 1789-1795, (2008) doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp076374x
  18. "Excited Electronic States and Photophysics of Uracil-Water Complexes", A. Yoshikawa and S. Matsika, Chem. Phys., 347, 393-404, (2008) (invited article for the special issue in honor of W. Domcke) doi:10.1016/j.chemphys.2007.09.059
  19. "Inclusion of Second-order Correlation Effects for the Ground and Singly Excited States Suitable for the Study of Conical Intersections: the CIS(2) Model", Chem. Phys. Lett., D. Laikov and S. Matsika, 448,132-137, (2007) doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2007.09.051
  20. "Cytosine in Context: A Theoretical Study of Substituent Effects on the Excitation Energies of 2-Pyrimidinone Derivatives'', K. A. Kistler and S. Matsika, J. Phys. Chem. A , 111, 8708-8716, (2007) doi:10.1021/jp074361d
  21. "6MAP, a fluorescent adenine analogue, is a probe of base flipping by DNA photolyase'', K. Yang, S. Matsika and R. J. Stanley, J. Phys. Chem. B, 111, 10615-10625, (2007) doi:10.1021/jp071035p
  22. "Radiationless Decay Mechanism of Cytosine: An Ab Initio Study with Comparisons to the Fluorescent Analogue 5-Methyl-2-Pyrimidinone", K. A. Kistler and S. Matsika, J. Phys. Chem. A, 111, 2650-2661, (2007) doi:10.1021/jp0663661
  23. "The Fluorescence Mechanism of 5-Methyl-2-Pyrimidinone: An Ab Initio Study of a Fluorescent Pyrimidine Analog", K. A. Kistler and S. Matsika, Photochemistry and Photobiology , 83, 611-624,, (2007) doi:10.1562/2006-04-03-RA-866
  24. "Conical intersections in Molecular Systems'', S. Matsika, Rev. Comp. Chem. 23 , 83, (2007)
  25. "A Combined Multireference Configuration Interaction/Molecular Dynamics Approach for Calculating Solvatochromic Shifts: Application to the nO -> pi* Electronic Transition in Formaldehyde", Z. Xu and S. Matsika, J. Phys. Chem. A, 110, 12035-12043, (2006) doi:10.1021/jp064520d
  26. "Excited Electronic States of the Cyclic Isomers of O3 and SO2", R. Elliot, R. Compton, R. J. Levis, and S. Matsika, J. Phys. Chem. A, 109, 11304 - 11311, (2005) doi:10.1021/jp054455s
  27. "Three-state Conical Intersections in Nucleic Acid Bases " , J. Phys. Chem. A., S. Matsika , 109, 7538-7545, (2005). doi:10.1021/jp0513622
  28. "Radiationless Decay of Excited States of Uracil through Conical Intersections " , J. Phys. Chem. A., S.Matsika , 108, 7584-7590, (2004). doi:10.1021/jp048284n
  29. "Quantitative Detection of Singlet O2 via Cavity Enhanced Absorption" , Optics Letters ., S. Williams, M. Gupta, T. Owano, D. S. Baer, A. O'Keefe, D. R. Yarkony and S. Matsika , 29, 1066-1068, (2004).
  30. "Conical Intersections of Three Electronic States Affect the Ground State of Radical Species with Little or No Symmetry: Pyrazolyl" , J. Amer. Chem. Soc., S.Matsika and D.R.Yarkony, 125, 12428-12429, (2003).
  31. "Beyond Two-State Conical Intersections. Three-State Conical Intersections in Low Symmetry Molecules: the Allyl Radical ", J. Amer. Chem. Soc., S.Matsika and D.R.Yarkony, 125, 10672-10676, (2003).
  32. " Photodissociation of the Vinoxy Radical through Conical, and Avoided, Intersections'', S. Matsika and D. R. Yarkony, J. Chem. Phys., 117, 7198-7206, (2002).
  33. " Accidental Conical Intersections of Three States of the Same Symmetry. I. Location and Relevance'', S. Matsika and D. R. Yarkony, J. Chem. Phys., 117, 6907-6910, (2002).
  34. "Spin-Orbit Coupling and Conical Intersections . IV. A Perturbative Determination of the Electronic Energies, Derivative Couplings and a Rigorous Diabatic Representation near a Conical Intersection. The General Case", S.Matsika and D.R.Yarkony, J.Phys. Chem. B, 106, 8108-8116, (2002).
  35. ``Conical Intersections and the Nonadiabatic Reactions H2O+O(3P ) -> OH(A )+OH(X )", S. Matsika and D. R. Yarkony, J. Chem. Phys., 117, 3733-3740, (2002).
  36. ``Conical Intersections and the Spin-Orbit Interaction", S. Matsika and D. R. Yarkony, The Role of Degenerate States in Chemistry: A Special Volume of Advances in Chemical Physics, 124, 557-581, (2002).
  37. ``Intersecting Conical Intersection Seams: their Location, Representation, and Effect on Local Topography", S. Matsika and D. R. Yarkony, J. Phys. Chem. A, 106, 2580-2591, (2002).
  38. ``Spin-Orbit Coupling and Conical Intersections in Molecules with an Odd Number of Electrons. III. A Perturbative Determination of the Electronic Energies, Derivative Couplings and a Rigorous Diabatic Representation near a Conical Intersection", S. Matsika and D. R. Yarkony, J. Chem. Phys., 116, 2825-2835, (2002).
  39. ``On the Effects of Spin-Orbit Coupling on Conical Intersection Seams in Molecules with an Odd Number of Electrons. II. Characterizing the Local Topography of the Seam", S. Matsika and D. R. Yarkony, J. Chem. Phys., 115, 5066-5075, (2001).
  40. ``On the Effects of Spin-Orbit Coupling on Conical Intersection Seams in Molecules with an Odd Number of Electrons. I. Locating the Seam", S. Matsika and D. R. Yarkony, J. Chem. Phys., 115, 2038-2050, (2001).
  41. ``Electronic Structure and Spectra of Actinyl Ions", S. Matsika, Z. Zhang, S. R. Brozell, J.-P. Blaudeau, Q. Wang, and R. M. Pitzer, J. Phys. Chem. A, 105, 3825-3828, (2001).
  42. ``Actinyl Ions in Cs2UO2Cl4 ", S. Matsika and R. M. Pitzer, J. Phys. Chem. A, 105, 637-645, (2001).
  43. ``Intensities in the Spectra of Actinyl Ions", S. Matsika, R. M. Pitzer and D. T. Reed, J. Phys. Chem. A, 104, 11983-11992, (2000).
  44. ``The Electronic Spectrum of the NpO22+ and NpO2+ Ions", S. Matsika and R. M. Pitzer, J. Phys. Chem. A, 104, 4064-4068, (2000).
  45. ``Atomic Orbital Basis Sets for Use with Effective Core Potentials", J.-P. Blaudeau, S. R. Brozell, S. Matsika, Z. Zhang and R. M. Pitzer, Int. J. Quantum Chem., 77, 516-520, (2000).
  46. ``Spin-Orbit Splittings in Mg+-Neutral Complexes", S. Matsika and R. M. Pitzer, J. Phys. Chem. A, 102, 1652-1656, (1998).
  47. ``Ab Initio Study of the Ground and Several Excited States of the NLi System", S. Matsika, A. Papakondylis and A. Mavridis, Chem. Phys. Lett., 250, 409-414, (1996).