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Spectroscopic and optical properties of nanosystems and point defects are discussed within the framework of Green's function methods. We use an approach based on evaluating the self-energy in the so-called GW approximation and solving the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Murilo L. Tiago , James R. Chelikowsky

We present a Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) solver based on a self-consistent $GW$ reference evaluated on the Matsubara frequency axis, referred to as BSE@sc$GW$. The self-consistent $GW$ starting point provides a robust quasiparticle…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Ming Wen , Gaurav Harsha , Dominika Zgid

Using the simple (symmetric) Hubbard dimer, we analyze some important features of the $GW$ approximation. We show that the problem of the existence of multiple quasiparticle solutions in the (perturbative) one-shot $GW$ method and its…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Stefano Di Sabatino , Pierre-François Loos , Pina Romaniello

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…

One-particle Green's function methods can model molecular and solid spectra at zero or non-zero temperatures. One-particle Green's functions directly provide electronic energies and one-particle properties, such as dipole moment. However,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Pavel Pokhilko , Sergei Iskakov , Chia-Nan Yeh , Dominika Zgid

We introduce the $\Sigma^{\text{BSE}}@L^{\text{BSE}}$ self-energy in the quasi-particle self-consistent $GW$ (qs$GW$) framework (qs$\Sigma^{\text{BSE}}@L^{\text{BSE}}$). Here, $L$ is the two-particle response function which we calculate by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Arno Förster

The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) formalism is a computationally affordable method for the calculation of accurate optical excitation energies in molecular systems. Similar to the ubiquitous adiabatic approximation of time-dependent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Pierre-François Loos , Xavier Blase

The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) that results from the GW approximation to the self-energy is a frequency-dependent (nonlinear) eigenvalue problem due to the dynamically screened Coulomb interaction between electrons and holes. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-16 Sylvia J. Bintrim , Timothy C. Berkelbach

We study within the many-body Green's function GW and Bethe-Salpeter formalisms the excitation energies of a paradigmatic model dipeptide, focusing on the four lowest-lying local and charge-transfer excitations. Our GW calculations are…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 Carina Faber , Paul Boulanger , Ivan Duchemin , Claudio Attaccalite , Xavier Blase

Machine learning applications in the chemical sciences, especially when based on neural networks, critically depend on the availability of large quantities of high quality data. As they provide excellent accuracy for both charged and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Dario Baum , Arno Förster , Lucas Visscher

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-01 Wei Hu , Meiyue Shao , Andrea Cepellotti , Felipe H. da Jornada , Lin Lin , Kyle Thicke , Chao Yang , Steven G. Louie

We present a real-time propagation method for computing linear and nonlinear optical properties of molecules based on the Bethe-Salpeter equation. The method follows the time evolution of the one-particle density matrix under an external…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Štěpán Marek , Jan Wilhelm

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

We present an approach to calculate the optical absorption spectra that combines the quasiparticle self-consistent GW method [Phys. Rev. B, 76 165106 (2007)] for the electronic structure with the solution of the ladder approximation to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-21 Brian Cunningham , Pooya Azarhoosh , Dimitar Pashov , Myrta Gruening , Mark van Schilfgaarde

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 light quark-antiquark scattering Green's function is considered near a meson resonance peak. The Bethe-Salpeter equation is used to write formal expressions for the resonance width/mass ratio. Arguments are made concerning to what…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 Dean Lee

Here, we build on the works of Scuseria (et al.) http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3043729 and Berkelbach https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5032314 to show connections between the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) formalism combined with the $GW$…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-12-19 Raúl Quintero-Monsebaiz , Enzo Monino , Antoine Marie , Pierre-François Loos

We applied localized orbital scaling correction (LOSC) in Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) to predict accurate excitation energies for molecules. LOSC systematically eliminates the delocalization error in the density functional approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-04 Jiachen Li , Ye Jin , Neil Qiang Su , Weitao Yang

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

The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for bound states in scalar theories is reformulated and solved in terms of a generalized spectral representation directly in Minkowski space. This differs from the conventional approach, where the BSE is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 K. Kusaka , K. M. Simpson , A. G. Williams