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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

Inspired by Grimme's simplified Tamm-Dancoff density functional theory approach [S. Grimme, J. Chem. Phys. \textbf{138}, 244104 (2013)], we describe a simplified approach to excited state calculations within the GW approximation to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 Yeongsu Cho , Sylvia J. Bintrim , Timothy C. Berkelbach

In this letter, we present the first fully analytic derivation and implementation of nuclear gradients for the G$_0$W$_0$ method. For this, we leverage the recently established connection between the G$_0$W$_0$ approach and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Johannes Tölle

We describe an all-electron implementation of the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for the calculation of optical absorption spectra in the full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave (FLAPW) method. So far, FLAPW implementations have…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-27 Jörn Stöhler , Stefan Blügel , Christoph Friedrich

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 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 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

The random-phase approximation (RPA) formulated within the adiabatic connection fluctuation-dissipation framework is a powerful approach to compute the ground-state energies and properties of molecules and materials. Its overall…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Muhammad N. Tahir , Honghui Shang , Xinguo Ren

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

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 develop an improved stochastic formalism for the Bethe-Salpeter equation, based on an exact separation of the effective-interaction $W$ to two parts, $W=(W-v_W)+v_W$ where the latter is formally any translationally-invariant interaction…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Nadine C. Bradbury , Tucker Allen , Minh Nguyen , Khaled Ibrahim , Daniel Neuhauser

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

This work is an extension of the work in \cite{bhatnagar18} to ground and excited states of $0^{++}, 0^{-+}$, and $1^{--}$ of heavy-light ($c\overline{u}, c\overline{s}, b\overline{u}, b\overline{s}$, and $b\overline{c}$) quarkonia in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Eshete Gebrehana , Shashank Bhatnagar , Hluf Negash

The Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) is the workhorse method to study excitons in materials. The BSE Hamiltonian size, which depends on how many valence-to-conduction band transitions are considered, needs to be chosen to be sufficiently large…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-20 Rafael R. Del Grande , David A. Strubbe

Many-body Green's functions theory within the GW approximation and the Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) is implemented in the open-source VOTCA-XTP software, aiming at the calculation of electronically excited states in complex molecular…

Computing the $GW$ quasiparticle bandstructure and Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) absorption spectra for materials with spin-orbit coupling has commonly been done by treating $GW$ corrections and spin-orbit coupling as separate perturbations…

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

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

While the well-established $GW$ approximation corresponds to a resummation of the direct ring diagrams and is particularly well suited for weakly-correlated systems, the $T$-matrix approximation does sum ladder diagrams up to infinity and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-28 Pierre-François Loos , Pina Romaniello

In order to solve the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) in the Minkowski space, we first introduce the Nakanishi integral representations of the Bethe-Salpeter amplitude (BSA) and the Bethe-Salpeter wave function (BSWF). We then derive the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-22 Shaoyang Jia