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Exciton dissociation at heterojunctions in photovoltaic devices is not completely understood despite being fundamentally necessary to generate electrical current. One of the fundamental issues for ab initio calculations is that hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-20 Michael J. Waters , Daniel Hashemi , John Kieffer

Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) has been currently established as a computationally cheaper, yet effective, alternative to the Many-Body Perturbation Theory (MBPT) for calculating the optical properties of solids. Within…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-13 M. Arruabarrena , A. Leonardo , A. Ayuela

We present a constrained density functional perturbation theory scheme for the calculation of structural and harmonic vibrational properties of insulators in the presence of an excited and thermalized electron-hole plasma. The method is…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-13 Giovanni Marini , Matteo Calandra

We combine electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations to study the dispersion and effective mass of excitons in the bulk of WSe$_2$. Our EELS data suggest substantial deviations from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 R. Schuster , Y. Wan , M. Knupfer , B. Büchner

Linear-response time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) can describe excitonic features in the optical spectra of insulators and semiconductors, using exchange-correlation (xc) kernels behaving as $-1/k^{2}$ to leading order. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-18 Jiuyu Sun , Cheng-Wei Lee , Alina Kononov , André Schleife , Carsten A. Ullrich

Ultrafast spectroscopies can access the dynamics of electrons and nuclei at short timescales, shedding light on nonequilibrium phenomena in materials. However, development of accurate calculations to interpret these experiments has lagged…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-05 Xiao Tong , Marco Bernardi

Exciton-photon hybridization is typically realised in geometrically defined optical cavities, where tunability is achieved by modifying either the cavity or the excitonic medium. Here we investigate transition-radiation interferences in…

In the description of the interaction between electrons beyond the classical Hartree picture, bare exchange often yields a leading contribution. Here we discuss its effect on optical spectra of solids, comparing three different frameworks:…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Fabien Bruneval , Francesco Sottile , Valerio Olevano , Lucia Reining

In this paper, we introduce an efficient, linear algebra-based method for optimizing supercell selection to determine Heisenberg exchange parameters from DFT calculations. A widely used approach for deriving these parameters involves…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-24 Mojtaba Alaei , Artem R. Oganov

The time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) method is an approach to simulate the mean field dynamics of electrons within the assumption that the electrons move independently in their self-consistent average field and within the space of single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Sahil Gulania , Stephen K. Gray , Yuri Alexeev , Bo Peng , Niranjan Govind

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

Over many years, computational simulations based on Density Functional Theory (DFT) have been used extensively to study many different materials at the atomic scale. However, its application is restricted by system size, leaving a number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Carlos Romero-Muñiz , Ayako Nakata , Pablo Pou , David R. Bowler , Tsuyoshi Miyazaki , Rubén Pérez

We study linear-response time-dependent density-functional theory (DFT) based on the single-determinant range-separated hybrid (RSH) scheme, i.e. combining a long-range Hartree-Fock exchange kernel with a short-range DFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Elisa Rebolini , Andreas Savin , Julien Toulouse

We present a detailed analysis of several time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) methods, including conventional hybrid functionals and two types of non-empirically tuned range-separated functionals, for predicting a diverse set of electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 Alexandra E. Raeber , Bryan M. Wong

We present a systematic theoretical study of the five smallest oligoacenes (naphthalene, anthracene, tetracene, pentacene, and hexacene) in their anionic,neutral, cationic, and dicationic charge states. We used density functional theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Malloci , G. Mulas , G. Cappellini , C. Joblin

We develop an approximation-free Diagrammatic Monte Carlo technique to study fermionic particles interacting with each other simultaneously through both an attractive Coulomb potential and bosonic excitations of the underlying medium.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Evgeni Burovski , Holger Fehske , Andrei S. Mishchenko

This paper studies the performance of time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) for calculating the dielectric function of semiconductors and insulators at finite momentum transfer, comparing against the standard Bethe-Salpeter…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-03 Didarul Alam , Jiuyu Sun , Carsten A. Ullrich

Phonons are fundamentally important for many materials properties, including thermal and electronic transport, superconductivity, and structural stability. Here, we describe a method to compute phonons in correlated materials using…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-03 Can P. Koçer , Kristjan Haule , G. Lucian Pascut , Bartomeu Monserrat

In this contribution, we extend our framework for analyzing and visualizing correlated many-electron dynamics to non-variational, highly scalable electronic structure method. Specifically, an explicitly time-dependent electronic wave packet…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-04-27 Gunter Hermann , Vincent Pohl , Jean Christophe Tremblay

Time-dependent orbital-free DFT is an efficient method for calculating the dynamic properties of large scale quantum systems due to the low computational cost compared to standard time-dependent DFT. We formalize this method by mapping the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Kaili Jiang , Michele Pavanello