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An ab initio approach is presented for studying the collective excitations in excitonic insulators, charge/spin density waves and superconductors. We derive the Bethe-Salpeter-Equation for the particle-hole excitations in the quasiparticle…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-09 Fengyuan Xuan , Jiexi Song , Zhiyuan Sun

Dynamical mean-field theory describes the impact of strong local correlation effects in many-electron systems. While the single-particle spectral function is directly obtained within the formalism, two-particle susceptibilities can also be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-16 Erik G. C. P. van Loon , Hugo U. R. Strand

The formation and disassociation of excitons plays a crucial role in any photovoltaic or photocatalytic application. However, excitonic effects are seldom considered in materials discovery studies due to the monumental computational cost…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-16 Tathagata Biswas , Arunima K. Singh

Excitonic effects in the linear optical response of semiconductors are well-known and the subject of countless experimental and theoretical studies. For the technologically important second order nonlinear response, however, description of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas G. Pedersen , Horia D. Cornean

Excitons, Coulomb-bound electron-hole pairs, are the fundamental excitations governing the optoelectronic properties of semiconductors. While optical signatures of excitons have been studied extensively, experimental access to the excitonic…

We present an efficient implementation of the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for optical properties of materials in the projector augmented wave method GPAW. Single-particle energies and wave functions are obtained from the GLLBSC functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-07-20 Jun Yan , Karsten W. Jacobsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

We present a hybrid approach for GW/Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) calculations of core excitation spectra, including x-ray absorption (XAS), electron energy loss spectra (EELS), and non-resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (NRIXS). The…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Vinson , E. L. Shirley , J. J. Rehr , J. J. Kas

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 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

We present a method to calculate the exciton spectra of all direct semiconductors with a complex valence band structure. The Schr\"odinger equation is solved using a complete basis set with Coulomb Sturmian functions. This method also…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-09 Frank Schweiner , Jörg Main , Matthias Feldmaier , Günter Wunner , Christoph Uihlein

It is well-known that exciton effects are determinant to understand the optical absorption spectrum of low-dimensional materials. However, the role of excitons in nonlinear optical responses has been much less investigated at an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 J. J. Esteve-Paredes , M. A. García-Blázquez , A. J. Uría-Álvarez , M. Camarasa-Gómez , J. J. Palacios

This paper presents a unified approach to the modeling and computation of the Kubo conductivity of incommensurate bilayer heterostructures at finite temperature. Firstly, we derive an expression for the large-body limit of Kubo-Greenwood…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Simon Etter , Daniel Massatt , Mitchell Luskin , Christoph Ortner

We have applied a many-body Wannier functions method to theoretically calculate an excitonic optical conductivity spectrum and energy structure in a one-dimensional (1D) Mott insulator at absolute zero temperature with large system size.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-22 T. Yamaguchi , K. Iwano , T. Miyamoto , N. Takamura , N. Kida , Y. Takahashi , T. Hasegawa , H. Okamoto

The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) formalism is steadily asserting itself as a new efficient and accurate tool in the ensemble of computational methods available to chemists in order to predict optical excitations in molecular systems. In…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Xavier Blase , Ivan Duchemin , Denis Jacquemin , Pierre-François Loos

Multidimensional coherent optical spectroscopy is one of the most powerful tools for investigating complex quantum mechanical systems. While it was conceived decades ago in magnetic resonance spectroscopy using micro- and radio-waves, it…

A systematic method of calculating the dynamical conductivity tensor in a general multiband electronic model with strong boson-mediated electron-electron interactions is described. The theory is based on the exact semiclassical expression…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-13 I. Kupcic , Z. Rukelj , S. Barisic

We analyze the many-particle correlations that affect the optical properties of two-dimensional semiconductors. These correlations manifest themselves through the specific optical resonances such as excitons, trions, etc. Starting from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 A. Kudlis , I. Iorsh

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

Phosphorene is a bidimensional material that has properties useful for semiconductor devices. In this work we studied the electronic and optical properties of this material using the $GW$ approximation and the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Fábio Ferreira , Ricardo Mendes Ribeiro

In this paper we develop a semi-analytical perturbation-theory approach to the calculation of the energy levels (binding energies) and wave functions of excitons in phosphorene. Our method gives both the exciton wave function in real and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 J. C. G. Henriques , N. M. R. Peres