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The Bethe-Salpeter equation is a widely used approach to describe optical excitations in bulk semiconductors. It leads to spectra that are in very good agreement with experiment, but the price to pay for such accuracy is a very high…

We generalize the interpolative separable density fitting (ISDF) method, used for compressing the four-index electron repulsion integral (ERI) tensor, to incorporate adaptive real space grids for potentially highly localized single-particle…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Hai Zhu , Chia-Nan Yeh , Miguel A. Morales , Leslie Greengard , Shidong Jiang , Jason Kaye

We present a computational approach for exciton calculations in two-dimensional (2D) materials within the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) framework, employing an atomistic description with point-like orbitals. Unlike widespread efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 P. Ninhos , A. J. Uría-Álvarez , C. Tserkezis , N. A. Mortensen , J. J. Palacios

To study the characteristic features of relativistic bound systems, the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for two equal mass spin 1/2 particles (like the deuteron) is solved in the cm-frame for a covariant separable interaction kernel. For that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Frieder Kleefeld , Manfred Dillig

Here we describe an efficient numerical implementation of the Bethe-Salpeter equation to obtain the excitonic spectrum of semiconductors. This is done on the electronic structure calculated either at the simplest tight-binding level or…

We report on the use of the adaptively compressed exchange (ACE) operator to accelerate many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) calculations, including G$_0$W$_0$ and the Bethe Salpeter equation (BSE), for hybrid density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-17 Victor Wen-zhe Yu , Marco Govoni

The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) formalism, combined with the $GW$ approximation for ionization energies and electron affinities, is emerging as an efficient and accurate method for predicting optical excitations in molecules. In this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Johannes Tölle , Marios-Petros Kitsaras , Pierre-François Loos

Solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for the optical polarization functions is a first principles means to model optical properties of materials including excitonic effects. One almost ubiquitously used approximation neglects the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-11 Xiao Zhang , Joshua A. Leveillee , André Schleife

Computing the $GW$ quasiparticle bandstructure and Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) absorption spectra for materials with spin-orbit coupling has commonly been done by treating $GW$ corrections and spin-orbit coupling as separate perturbations…

The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) that results from the GW approximation to the self-energy is a frequency-dependent (nonlinear) eigenvalue problem due to the dynamically screened Coulomb interaction between electrons and holes. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-16 Sylvia J. Bintrim , Timothy C. Berkelbach

We investigate optical absorption spectra obtained through time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) based on nonempirical hybrid functionals that are designed to correctly reproduce the dielectric function. The comparison with…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-17 Alexey Tal , Peitao Liu , Georg Kresse , Alfredo Pasquarello

We present a first-principles method for the calculation of optical excitations in nanosystems. The method is based on solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for neutral excitations. The electron self-energy is evaluated within the GW…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Murilo L. Tiago , James R. Chelikowsky

The design of novel functional materials in silico is severely hampered by the lack of robust and computationally efficient methods for describing both molecular absorbance and screening on substrates. Here we employ our hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Duncan John Mowbray , Vito Despoja

PET requires accurate, precise, and efficient scatter correction techniques. Conventional scatter estimation typically relies on tail-fitted single-scatter simulation (SSS) strategy. However, the accuracy of tail-fitted SSS is limited, for…

Using both time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and the ``single-shot" $GW$ plus Bethe-Salpeter equation ($GW$-BSE) approach, we compute optical band gaps and optical absorption spectra from first principles for eight common…

Phosphorene is a bidimensional material that has properties useful for semiconductor devices. In this work we studied the electronic and optical properties of this material using the $GW$ approximation and the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Fábio Ferreira , Ricardo Mendes Ribeiro

Convergence with respect to the size of the k-points sampling-grid of the Brillouin zone is the main bottleneck in the calculation of optical spectra of periodic crystals via the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE). We tackle this challenge by…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-24 Ignacio M. Alliati , Davide Sangalli , Myrta Grüning

In this review we demonstrate how the algebraic Bethe ansatz is used for the calculation of the energy spectra and form factors (operator matrix elements in the basis of Hamiltonian eigenstates) in exactly solvable quantum systems. As…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Links , H. -Q. Zhou , R. H. McKenzie , M. D. Gould

An ab initio approach to the calculation of excitonic effects in the optical absorption spectra of semiconductors and insulators is formulated. It starts from a quasiparticle bandstructure calculation and is based on the relevant…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Stefan Albrecht , Lucia Reining , Rodolfo Del Sole , Giovanni Onida

We present calculations of the absorption spectrum of semiconductors and insulators comparing various approaches: (i) the two-particle Bethe-Salpeter equation of Many-Body Perturbation Theory; (ii) time-dependent density-functional theory…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Francesco Sottile , Marherita Marsili , Valerio Olevano , Lucia Reining