Berlin 2018 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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DS: Fachverband Dünne Schichten

DS 30: Focus Session: Frontiers of Electronic-Structure Theory: Correlated Electron Materials VI (joint session O/MM/DS/TT/CPP)

DS 30.8: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 15. März 2018, 12:15–12:30, HL 001

Bethe-Salpeter equation beyond the Tamm-Dancoff approximation at finite momentum transfer: Absorption and loss spectra including excitonic effects — •Benjamin Aurich, Caterina Cocchi, and Claudia Draxl — Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany

The state-of-the-art ab-initio method for computing optical properties of semiconductors is based on the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) which describes the excitations of the system in terms of interacting electron-hole (e-h) pairs. For absorption spectra, typically no momentum transfer from light to the e-h pairs is considered, and the coupling between excitations and de-excitations of e-h pairs is usually neglected by using the Tamm-Dancoff approximation (TDA). This approach yields excellent agreement with experiment for many materials, but may break down for confined systems [1]. The TDA is also known to fail to describe the electron energy loss spectra for materials as simple as silicon [2]. We report on the extensions of the open-source code exciting [3] allowing for BSE calculations beyond the TDA and at finite momentum transfer using an exact diagonalization scheme [4]. We demonstrate the differences between TDA and non-TDA spectra at vanishing and finite momentum transfer for periodic molecular systems.

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[3] A. Gulans et al., J. Phys. Condens. Matter 26, 363202 (2014)

[4] T. Sander et al., Phys. Rev. B 92, 045209 (2015)