Segmentation Driven Peeling for Visual Analysis of Electronic Transitions

Sharma, M and Masood, TB and Thygesen, SS and Linares, M and Hotz, I and Natarajan, V (2021) Segmentation Driven Peeling for Visual Analysis of Electronic Transitions. In: 2021 IEEE Visualization Conference, VIS 2021, 24-29 Oct 2021, Virtual, Online, pp. 96-100.

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Abstract

Electronic transitions in molecules due to absorption or emission of light is a complex quantum mechanical process. Their study plays an important role in the design of novel materials. A common yet challenging task in the study is to determine the nature of those electronic transitions, i.e. which subgroups of the molecule are involved in the transition by donating or accepting electrons, followed by an investigation of the variation in the donor-acceptor behavior for different transitions or conformations of the molecules. In this paper, we present a novel approach towards the study of electronic transitions based on the visual analysis of a bivariate field, namely the electron density in the hole and particle Natural Transition Orbital (NTO). The visual analysis focuses on the continuous scatter plots (CSPs) of the bivariate field linked to their spatial domain. The method supports selections in the CSP visualized as fiber surfaces in the spatial domain, the grouping of atoms, and segmentation of the density fields to peel the CSP. This peeling operator is central to the visual analysis process and helps identify donors and acceptors. We study different molecular systems, identifying local excitation and charge transfer excitations to demonstrate the utility of the method. © 2021 IEEE.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publication:	Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Visualization Conference - Short Papers, VIS 2021
Publisher:	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Keywords:	Charge transfer; Data visualization; Molecules; Quantum theory, Applications domains; Bivariate; Electronic transition; Human-centered computing; Quantum mechanical process; Scatter plots; Spatial domains; Visual analysis; Visualization application; Visualization application domain, Visualization
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation
Date Deposited:	13 Feb 2022 08:47
Last Modified:	13 Feb 2022 08:47
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/71384

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