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Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) simulations of transient core-level spectroscopies require a balanced treatment of both valence- and core-electron excitations. To this end, tuned range-separated hybrid exchange-correlation…

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Recent advances in laser technology allow us to follow electronic motion at its natural time-scale with ultra-fast time resolution, leading the way towards attosecond physics experiments of extreme precision. In this work, we assess the use…

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We applied the time-resolved attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy to systematically investigate ultrafast optical responses of condensed matter systems. Under an intense pump pulse, absorption spectra indicate that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-26 Youngjae Kim

Understanding excited carrier dynamics in semiconductors is crucial for the development of photovoltaics and efficient photonic devices. However, overlapping spectral features in optical/NIR pump-probe spectroscopy often render assignments…

A practical computational scheme based on time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and ultrasoft pseudopotential (USPP) is developed to study electron dynamics in real time. A modified Crank-Nicolson time-stepping algorithm is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaofeng Qian , Ju Li , Xi Lin , Sidney Yip

The real-time electronic dynamics on material surfaces is critically important to a variety of applications. However, their simulations have remained challenging for conventional methods such as the time-dependent density-functional theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Rulin Wang , Dong Hou , Xiao Zheng

The last decade has witnessed a rapid advancement in laser technology, enabling the direct monitoring and control of electronic motion on its natural attosecond to sub-femtosecond timescales. Ultrafast processes are conventionally studied…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Torsha Moitra

Ultrafast electronic dynamics in solids lies at the core of modern condensed matter and materials physics. To build up a practical ab initio method for studying solids under photoexcitation, we develop a momentum-resolved real-time time…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-17 Chao Lian , Shi-Qi Hu , Meng-Xue Guan , Sheng Meng

Various ways to analyze the dynamical response of clusters and molecules to electromagnetic perturbations exist. Particularly rich information can be obtained from measuring the properties of electrons emitted in the course of the…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2015-06-11 P. Wopperer , P. M. Dinh , P. -G. Reinhard , E. Suraud

First principle theoretical modeling of out-of-equilibrium processes observed in attosecond pump-probe transient absorption spectroscopy (TAS) triggering pure electron dynamics remains a challenging task, specially for heavy elements and/or…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Torsha Moitra , Lukas Konecny , Marius Kadek , Angel Rubio , Michal Repisky

This paper introduces a spectral analysis of time-seires data derived from real-time time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) using Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA). TDDFT is a robust method for obtaining molecular excited states…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Naoki Tani , Satoru S. Kano , Yasunari Zempo

Electron dynamics of anatase TiO$_2$ under the influence of ultrashort and intense laser field is studied using the real-time time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). Our findings demonstrate the effectiveness of TDDFT calculations…

Attosecond streaking of photoelectrons emitted by extreme ultraviolet light has begun to reveal how electrons behave during their transport within simple crystalline solids. Many sample types within nanoplasmonics, thin-film physics, and…

An approximate method based on adiabatic time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presented, that allows for the description of the electron dynamics in nanoscale junctions under arbitrary time dependent external potentials. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Y. Wang , C. -Y. Yam , G. H. Chen , Th. Frauenheim , T. A. Niehaus

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is widely used to describe electronic excitations in complex finite systems with large numbers of atoms, such as biomolecules and nanocrystals. The first part of this paper will give a simple…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-08-15 C. A. Ullrich , V. Turkowski

Attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy (ATAS) is becoming an indispensable and powerful tool in the emerging field of attochemistry, while the interpretation of measurements often requires full considerations of the coupling among…

Despite the variety of available computational approaches, state-of-the-art methods for calculating excitation energies such as time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), are computationally demanding and thus limited to moderate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Martina Stella , Kritam Thapa , Luigi Genovese , Laura E. Ratcliff

To investigate inelastic electron scattering, which is ubiquitous in various fields of study, we carry out ab initio study of the real-time dynamics of a one-dimensional electron wave packet scattered by a hydrogen atom using different…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Yeonghun Lee , Xiaolong Yao , Massimo V. Fischetti , Kyeongjae Cho

The mechanism underlying high harmonic generation (HHG) in gases has been well clarified, characterizing attosecond pulse trains (APT) in the time domain, significantly advances the synthesis of isolated attosecond pulse (IAP). However, the…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-25 Qing-Guo Fan , Kang Lai , Wen-hao Liu , Zhi Wang , Lin-Wang Wang , Jun-Wei Luo

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is a widely used method to investigate electron dynamics under external time-dependent perturbations such as laser fields. In this work, we present a machine learning approach to accelerate…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-02 Karan Shah , Attila Cangi