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We present an approach for adapting the Gaussian dispersion analysis (GDA) of optical materials to time-domain simulations. Within a GDA model, the imaginary part of a measured dielectric function is presented as a sum of Gaussian…
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Density functional theory within the local or semilocal density approximations (DFT-LDA/GGA) has become a workhorse in electronic structure theory of solids, being extremely fast and reliable for energetics and structural properties, yet…
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