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DS: Fachverband Dünne Schichten

DS 10: Frontiers in Electronic-Structure Theory - Focus on Electron-Phonon Interactions II (joint session O/CPP/DS/HL)

DS 10.1: Talk

Monday, March 16, 2020, 15:00–15:15, GER 38

Satellites in optical and loss spectra — •Pier Luigi Cudazzo — Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication, RU Physics and Materials Science, Campus Limpertsberg, Université du Luxembourg, 162 A, avenue de la Faïencerie, L-1511 Luxembourg

Coupling of excitations leads to intriguing effects on the spectra of materials. We propose a cumulant formulation for neutral electronic excitations which opens the way to describe effects such as double plasmon satellites or exciton-exciton and exciton-phonon coupling. Our approach starts from the GW plus Bethe-Salpeter approximation to many body perturbation theory which is based on a quasiparticle picture, and it adds coupling of excitations through a consistent inclusion of dynamically screened interactions. This requires to consider scattering contributions that are usually neglected. The result is formulated in a way that highlights essential physics, that can be implemented as a post processing tool in first principles codes, and that suggests which kind of materials and measurements should exhibit strong effects. This is illustrated using a model.