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A real-space, rela-time method for the dielectric function

Condensed Matter 2009-02-05 v1

Abstract

We present an algorithm to calculate the linear response of periodic systems in the time-dependent density functional thoery, using a real-space representation of the electron wave functions and calculating the dynamics in real time. The real-space formulation increases the efficiency for calculating the interaction, and the real-time treatment decreases storage requirements and the allows the entire frequency-dependent response to be calculated at once. We give as examples the dielectric functions of a simple metal, lithium, and an elemental insulator, diamond.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0005512,
  title  = {A real-space, rela-time method for the dielectric function},
  author = {G. F. Bertsch and J. -I. Iwata and Angel Rubio and K. Yabana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0005512},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages, Latex, 5 figures