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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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Mao Yang , Claudia Draxl

We present an alternative methodology for calculating the quasi-particle energy, energy loss, and optical spectra of a molecule deposited on graphene or a metallic substrate. To test the accuracy of the method it is first applied to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 V. Despoja , I. Lončarić , D. J. Mowbray , L. Marušić

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) 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

In recent years, Green's function methods have garnered considerable interest due to their ability to target both charged and neutral excitations. Among them, the well-established $GW$ approximation provides accurate ionization potentials…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Enzo Monino , Pierre-François Loos

We present a massively parallel, GPU-accelerated implementation of the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for the calculation of the vertical excitation energies (VEEs) and optical absorption spectra of condensed and molecular systems, starting…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-25 Victor Wen-zhe Yu , Yu Jin , Giulia Galli , Marco Govoni

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

The self-consistent GW{\Gamma} method satisfies the Ward-Takahashi identity (i.e., the gauge invariance or the local charge continuity) for arbitrary energy ($\omega$) and momentum ($\bf q$) transfers. Its self-consistent first-principles…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-12 Riichi Kuwahara , Yoshifumi Noguchi , Kaoru Ohno

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

We apply the renormalized singles (RS) Green's function in the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE)/$GW$ approach to predict accurate neutral excitation energies of molecular systems. The BSE calculations are performed on top of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Jiachen Li , Dorothea Golze , Weitao Yang

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

Optical properties of materials related to light absorption and scattering are explained by the excitation of electrons. The Bethe-Salpeter equation is the state-of-the-art approach to describe these processes from first principles (ab…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Peter Benner , Carolin Penke

We calculate the electronic and optical excitations of polythiophene using the GW approximation for the electronic self-energy, and include excitonic effects by solving the electron-hole Bethe-Salpeter equation. Two different situations are…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 J. -W. van der Horst , P. A. Bobbert , P. H. L. de Jong , M. A. J. Michels , G. Brocks , P. J. Kelly

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 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

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

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…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-08-20 F. Fuchs , C. Rödl , A. Schleife , F. Bechstedt

We calculate single-particle excitation energies for a series of 33 molecules using fully selfconsistent GW, one-shot G$_0$W$_0$, Hartree-Fock (HF), and hybrid density functional theory (DFT). All calculations are performed within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 C. Rostgaard , K. W. Jacobsen , K. S. Thygesen

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…