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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 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

Many-body effects are known to play a crucial role in the electronic and optical properties of solids and nano-structures. Nevertheless the majority of theoretical and numerical approaches able to capture the influence of Coulomb…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 C. Attaccalite , M. Grüning , A. Marini

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

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 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

Various many-body perturbation theory techniques for calculating electron behavior rely on {\it W}, the screened Coulomb interaction. Computing {\it W} requires complete knowledge of the dielectric response of the electronic system, and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-30 John Vinson , Eric L. Shirley

While the well-established $GW$ approximation corresponds to a resummation of the direct ring diagrams and is particularly well suited for weakly-correlated systems, the $T$-matrix approximation does sum ladder diagrams up to infinity and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-28 Pierre-François Loos , Pina Romaniello

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

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

We propose a simple many-body based screening mixing strategy to considerably enhance the performance of the Bethe-Salpeter (BS) approach for prediction of excitation energies of molecular systems. This strategy enables us to nearly…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Vafa Ziaei , Thomas Bredow

We apply the renormalized singles (RS) Green's function in the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE)/$GW$ approach to predict accurate neutral excitation energies of molecular systems. The BSE calculations are performed on top of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Jiachen Li , Dorothea Golze , Weitao Yang

A formally exact Bethe-Salpeter-like equation for the linear-response function is introduced with a kernel which depends only on the one frequency of the applied field. This is in contrast with the standard Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-03-18 Valerio Olevano , Julien Toulouse , Peter Schuck

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) 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

Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) in the self-consistent Hartree-Fock (HF) basis is often used for describing complex many-body effects in material science applications. Its exact solution on the real-frequency axis at finite temperature for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-14 I. S. Tupitsyn , N. V. Prokof'ev

Binding energies calculated from using the Bethe-Salpeter equation in the simplest ladder approximation significantly differ from those obtained in the non-relativistic standard instantaneous approximation. While they should a priori be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Le Gorrec , B. Desplanques

It is known that binding energies calculated from the Bethe-Salpeter equation in ladder approximation can be reasonably well accounted for by an energy-dependent interaction, at least for the lowest states. It is also known that none of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Amghar , B. Desplanques , L. Theussl

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

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