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The Bethe-Salpeter equation for the electron-hole correlation function is the state-of-the-art formalism for optical and core spectroscopy in condensed matter. Solutions of this equation yield the full dielectric response, including both…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-12 Christian Vorwerk , Benjamin Aurich , Caterina Cocchi , Claudia Draxl

A time-dependent formulation for electron-hole excitations in extended finite systems, based on the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE), is developed using a stochastic wave function approach. The time-dependent formulation builds on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-11 Eran Rabani , Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser

We present an efficient implementation of the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for optical properties of materials in the projector augmented wave method GPAW. Single-particle energies and wave functions are obtained from the GLLBSC functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-07-20 Jun Yan , Karsten W. Jacobsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

We study the optical absorption spectra of small Ag_n (n=2,4,6,8) clusters using the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) formalism with a Hamiltonian built from GW quasiparticle energies. Calculations are based on an effective core potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-16 Xavier Blase , Ivan Duchemin

We present a method to compute optical spectra and exciton binding energies of molecules and solids based on the solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) and the calculation of the screened Coulomb interaction in finite field. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-19 Ngoc Linh Nguyen , He Ma , Marco Govoni , Francois Gygi , Giulia Galli

The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) is a powerful theoretical approach that is capable to accurately treat electron-hole interactions in materials in an excited state. We developed an ab initio framework based on the BSE to describe a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-19 Nasrin Farahani , Daria Popova-Gorelova

Accurate and efficient calculations of absorption spectra of molecules and materials are essential for the understanding and rational design of broad classes of systems. Solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for electron-hole pairs…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-18 Sijia S. Dong , Marco Govoni , Giulia Galli

The high cost associated with the evaluation of Hartree-Fock exchange (HFX) makes hybrid functionals computationally challenging for large systems. In this work, we present an efficient way to accelerate HFX calculations with numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Xinming Qin , Jie Liu , Wei Hu , Jinlong Yang

The $GW$-Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) method is promising for calculating the low-lying excited states of molecular systems. So far, it has only been applied to rather small molecules, and in the commonly implemented diagonal…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Arno Förster , Lucas Visscher

The GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation (GW-BSE) formalism is a well-established approach for calculating excitation energies and optical spectra of molecules, nanostructures, and crystalline materials. We implement GW-BSE in the CP2K code and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Maximilian Graml , Jan Wilhelm

In this paper, we introduce a new interpolation scheme to approximate the density of states (DOS) for a class of rank-structured matrices with application to the Tamm-Dancoff approximation (TDA) of the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE). The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Peter Benner , Venera Khoromskaia , Boris N. Khoromskij , Chao Yang

In this work we present a new procedure to compute optical spectra including excitonic effects and approximated quasiparticle corrections with reduced computational effort. The excitonic effects on optical spectra are included by solving…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-26 Filipe Matusalem , Marcelo Marques , Ivan Guilhon , Lara K. Teles

Inspired by Grimme's simplified Tamm-Dancoff density functional theory approach [S. Grimme, J. Chem. Phys. \textbf{138}, 244104 (2013)], we describe a simplified approach to excited state calculations within the GW approximation to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 Yeongsu Cho , Sylvia J. Bintrim , Timothy C. Berkelbach

We present low-scaling algorithms for $GW$ and constrained random phase approximation based on a symmetry-adapted interpolative separable density fitting (ISDF) procedure that incorporates the space-group symmetries of crystalline systems.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-24 Chia-Nan Yeh , Miguel A. Morales

The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) combined with the Green's function GW method has successfully transformed into a robust computational tool to describe light-matter interactions and excitation spectra for molecules, solids, and materials…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Christof Holzer , Yannick J. Franzke

First principles calculations based on many-electron perturbation theory methods, such as the \textit{ab initio} GW and GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation (GW-BSE) approach, are reliable ways to predict quasiparticle and optical properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-11 Felipe H. da Jornada , Diana Y. Qiu , Steven G. Louie

The Bethe-Salpeter formalism represents the most accurate method available nowadays for computing neutral excitation energies and optical spectra of crystalline systems from first principles. Bethe-Salpeter calculations yield very good…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-04 Yannick Gillet , Matteo Giantomassi , Xavier Gonze

We present a hybrid approach for GW/Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) calculations of core excitation spectra, including x-ray absorption (XAS), electron energy loss spectra (EELS), and non-resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (NRIXS). The…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Vinson , E. L. Shirley , J. J. Rehr , J. J. Kas

We present a highly efficient method for the extraction of optical properties of very large molecules via the Bethe-Salpeter equation. The crutch of this approach is the calculation of the action of the effective Coulombic interaction, $W$,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Nadine Bradbury , Minh Nguyen , Justin R Caram , Daniel Neuhauser

We present an implementation of the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for core-conduction band pairs within the framework of the projector augmented-wave method. For validation, the method is applied to the $K$-edges of diamond, graphite,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-24 Martin Unzog , Alexey Tal , Georg Kresse