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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

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) can provide an accurate description of low-energy optical spectra of insulating crystals - even when excitonic effects are important. However, due to high computational costs it is only possible to include…

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

The predictive power of the ab initio Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) approach, rigorously based on many-body Green's function theory but incorporating information from density functional theory, has already been demonstrated for the optical…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Fabien Bruneval , Samia M. Hamed , Jeffrey B. Neaton

The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) based on GW quasiparticle levels is a successful approach for calculating the optical gaps and spectra of solids and also for predicting the neutral excitations of small molecules. We here present an…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-19 Chi Liu , Jan Kloppenburg , Xinguo Ren , Heiko Appel , Yosuke Kanai , Volker Blum

We present an energy-specific Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) implementation for efficient core and valence optical spectrum calculations. In energy-specific BSE, high-lying excitation energies are obtained by constructing trial vectors and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-29 Christopher Hillenbrand , Jiachen Li , Tianyu Zhu

Like adiabatic time-dependent density-functional theory (TD-DFT), the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) formalism of many-body perturbation theory, in its static approximation, is "blind" to double (and higher) excitations, which are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Enzo Monino , Pierre-François Loos

The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) is a reliable model for estimating the absorption spectra in molecules and solids on the basis of accurate calculation of the excited states from first principles. This challenging task includes calculation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Peter Benner , Venera Khoromskaia , Boris N. Khoromskij

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

The Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) can be applied to compute from first-principles optical spectra that include the effects of screened electron-hole interactions. As input, BSE calculations require single-particle states, quasiparticle…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-01 Joshua Elliott , Nicola Colonna , Margherita Marsili , Nicola Marzari , Paolo Umari

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

The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) is currently the state of the art in the description of neutral electron excitations in both solids and large finite systems. It is capable of accurately treating charge-transfer excitations that present…

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

We present an efficient way to solve the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE), a model for the computation of absorption spectra in molecules and solids that includes electron-hole excitations. Standard approaches to construct and diagonalize the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-01 Wei Hu , Meiyue Shao , Andrea Cepellotti , Felipe H. da Jornada , Lin Lin , Kyle Thicke , Chao Yang , Steven G. Louie

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 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 review the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) approach to the calculation of electronic excitation energies of molecular systems. We recall the general Green's function many-theory formalism and give the working equations of the BSE approach…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-04-05 Elisa Rebolini , Julien Toulouse , Andreas Savin

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 present an efficient implementation of the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) method for obtaining core-level spectra including x-ray absorption (XAS), x-ray emission (XES), and both resonant and non-resonant inelastic x-ray scattering…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-01-29 K. Gilmore , John Vinson , E. L. Shirley , D. Prendergast , C. D. Pemmaraju , J. J. Kas , F. D. Vila , J. J. Rehr
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