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The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) formalism is a computationally affordable method for the calculation of accurate optical excitation energies in molecular systems. Similar to the ubiquitous adiabatic approximation of time-dependent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Pierre-François Loos , Xavier Blase

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

The quasiparticle electronic structure and optical excitation of anatase TiO$_2$ is determined within the framework of many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) by combining the $G_0W_0$ method and the Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE). A modified…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-07 Sruthil Lal S. B , D Murali , Matthias Posselt , Assa Aravindh Sasikala Devi , Alok Sharan

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 present a simple linear model to estimate the basis set incompleteness errors (BSIE) of (vertex-corrected) $GW$ QP energies based on the kinetic energy of the corresponding orbital only. We parametrise the model for $G_0W_0$,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Dario Baum , Lucas Visscher , Arno Förster

Many-body Green's functions theory within the GW approximation and the Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) is implemented in the open-source VOTCA-XTP software, aiming at the calculation of electronically excited states in complex molecular…

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

The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) is the key equation in many-body perturbation theory based on Green's functions to access response properties. Within the $GW$ approximation to the exchange-correlation kernel, the BSE has been successfully…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Roberto Orlando , Pina Romaniello , Pierre-François Loos

We introduce the $\Sigma^{\text{BSE}}@L^{\text{BSE}}$ self-energy in the quasi-particle self-consistent $GW$ (qs$GW$) framework (qs$\Sigma^{\text{BSE}}@L^{\text{BSE}}$). Here, $L$ is the two-particle response function which we calculate by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Arno Förster

The lowest electronic excitations of benzene and a set of donor-acceptor molecular complexes are calculated for the gas phase and on the Al(111) surface using the many-body Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE). The energy of the charge-transfer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. M. Garcia-Lastra , K. S. Thygesen

The Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) is the workhorse method to study excitons in materials. The BSE Hamiltonian size, which depends on how many valence-to-conduction band transitions are considered, needs to be chosen to be sufficiently large…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-20 Rafael R. Del Grande , David A. Strubbe

The accurate prediction of singlet and triplet excitation energies is of significant fundamental interest and is critical for many applications. An area of intense research, most calculations of singlet and triplet energies use…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-05-22 Tonatiuh Rangel , Samia M. Hamed , Fabien Bruneval , Jeffrey B. Neaton

We applied localized orbital scaling correction (LOSC) in Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) to predict accurate excitation energies for molecules. LOSC systematically eliminates the delocalization error in the density functional approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-04 Jiachen Li , Ye Jin , Neil Qiang Su , Weitao Yang

Using the simple (symmetric) Hubbard dimer, we analyze some important features of the $GW$ approximation. We show that the problem of the existence of multiple quasiparticle solutions in the (perturbative) one-shot $GW$ method and its…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Stefano Di Sabatino , Pierre-François Loos , Pina Romaniello

Machine learning applications in the chemical sciences, especially when based on neural networks, critically depend on the availability of large quantities of high quality data. As they provide excellent accuracy for both charged and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Dario Baum , Arno Förster , Lucas Visscher

We introduce a family of all-electron Gaussian basis sets, augmented MOLOPT, optimized for excited-state calculations on large molecules. We generate these basis sets by augmenting existing STO-3G, STO-6G, and MOLOPT basis sets optimized…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Rémi Pasquier , Maximilian Graml , Jan Wilhelm

We describe an all-electron implementation of the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for the calculation of optical absorption spectra in the full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave (FLAPW) method. So far, FLAPW implementations have…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-27 Jörn Stöhler , Stefan Blügel , Christoph Friedrich

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 report an all-electron implementation of the quasiparticle self-consistent GW (QSGW) method for molecular and periodic systems within the framework of numerical atomic orbitals (NAOs), as implemented in the LibRPA software package. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 Bohan Jia , Min-Ye Zhang , Ziqing Guan , Huanjing Gong , Xinguo Ren

The combination of the many-body Green's function $GW$ approximation and the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) formalism has shown to be a promising alternative to time-dependent density-functional theory (TD-DFT) for computing vertical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Pierre-François Loos , Anthony Scemama , Ivan Duchemin , Denis Jacquemin , Xavier Blase