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MM: Fachverband Metall- und Materialphysik

MM 52: Focussed Session: Frontiers of Electronic Structure Theory - Non-equilibrium Phenomena at the Nano-scale VI (O with HL/TT/MM)

MM 52.3: Talk

Thursday, April 3, 2014, 11:15–11:30, TRE Ma

Advanced time-evolution method for optical absorption spectra calculations — •Tobias Sander and Georg Kresse — Computational Materials Physics, University of Vienna, Sensengasse 8/12, 1090 Vienna, Austria

The Green’s function formalism from many-body perturbation theory gives access to electronic structure calculation within the quasiparticle picture, as well as provides for calculating optical absorption spectra. Within the traditional ansatz [1], a Bethe-Salpeter like equation for the polarizability is solved. This requires to diagonalize an in general non-hermitian and complex matrix (BSE matrix). Usually, the off-diagonal elements of the BSE matrix are neglected and this is referred to as Tamm-Dancoff approximation. The computational effort can be reduced by using the time-evolution ansatz [2] which avoids the matrix diagonalization. We present a method based on the time-evolution algorithm, that finally avoids storing and diagonalizing the BSE matrix. This leads to a reduction of the scaling w.r.t the system size N from N5 to N3. Finally, we present first results for typical systems.

[1] S. Albrecht, L. Reining, R. Del Sole, G. Onida, PRL 80, 4510 (1998)
W. G. Schmidt, S. Glutsch, P. H. Hahn, F. Bechstedt, PRB 67, 085307 (2003)

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