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We present a computational approach for exciton calculations in two-dimensional (2D) materials within the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) framework, employing an atomistic description with point-like orbitals. Unlike widespread efficient…
Excitonic effects in optical spectra and electron-hole pair excitations are described by solutions of the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) that accounts for the Coulomb interaction of excited electron-hole pairs. Although for the computation…
An ab initio approach to the calculation of excitonic effects in the optical absorption spectra of semiconductors and insulators is formulated. It starts from a quasiparticle bandstructure calculation and is based on the relevant…
In this work we present a new procedure to compute optical spectra including excitonic effects and approximated quasiparticle corrections with reduced computational effort. The excitonic effects on optical spectra are included by solving…
In order to realize the significant potential of optical materials such as metal halides, computational techniques which give accurate optical properties are needed, which can work hand-in-hand with experiments to generate high efficiency…
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…
Semiconducting MXenes are an intriguing two-dimensional (2D) material class with promising electronic and optoelectronic properties. Here, we focused on recently prepared Hf-based MXenes, namely Hf$_3$C$_2$O$_2$ and Hf$_2$CO$_2$. Using the…
In computing electric conductivity based on the Kubo formula, the vertex corrections describe such effects as anisotropic scattering and quantum interference and are important to quantum transport properties. These vertex corrections are…
We present a highly efficient method for the extraction of optical properties of very large molecules via the Bethe-Salpeter equation. The crutch of this approach is the calculation of the action of the effective Coulombic interaction, $W$,…
We present an ab initio description of optical and shallow-core x-ray absorption spectroscopies in a unified formalism based on the pseudopotential plane-wave method at the level of the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) within Green's functions…
Excitons, namely neutral excitations in a system of electrons arising from the electron-hole interaction, are often essential to explain optical measurements in materials. They are governed by the Bethe-Salpeter equation, which can be cast…
Here we introduce a numerical method for computing conductivity via the Kubo Formula for incommensurate 2D bilayer heterostructures using a tight-binding framework. We begin with deriving the momentum space formulation and Kubo Formula from…
We investigate the excitonic spectrum of MoS$_2$ monolayers and calculate its optical absorption properties over a wide range of energies. Our approach takes into account the anomalous screening in two dimensions and the presence of a…
We present calculations of the absorption spectrum of semiconductors and insulators comparing various approaches: (i) the two-particle Bethe-Salpeter equation of Many-Body Perturbation Theory; (ii) time-dependent density-functional theory…
In this tutorial we introduce the reader to several theoretical methods of determining the exciton wave functions and the corresponding eigenenergies. The methods covered are either analytical, semi-analytical, or numeric. We make explicit…
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…
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…
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…
We present a first-principles method for relaxing a material's geometry in an optically excited state. This method, based on the Bethe-Salpeter equation, consists of solving coupled equations for exciton wavefunctions and atomic…
We investigate optical transitions of non-interacting electron systems consisting of two symmetric energy bands touching each other at the Fermi energy (e.g. graphene at half filling). Optical conductivity is obtained using Kubo formula at…