Phonon screening and dissociation of excitons at finite temperatures from first principles

AM Alvertis, JB Haber, Z Li, CJN Coveney… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
The properties of excitons, or correlated electron–hole pairs, are of paramount importance to
optoelectronic applications of materials. A central component of exciton physics is the …

Computational Discovery of Intermolecular Singlet Fission Materials Using Many-Body Perturbation Theory

X Wang, S Gao, Y Luo, X Liu, R Tom… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Intermolecular singlet fission (SF) is the conversion of a photogenerated singlet exciton into
two triplet excitons residing on different molecules. SF has the potential to enhance the …

Linear scaling approach for optical excitations using maximally localized Wannier functions

K Merkel, F Ortmann - Journal of Physics: Materials, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a theoretical method for calculating optical absorption spectra based on
maximally localized Wannier functions, which is suitable for large periodic systems. For this …

and semiconductors for photovoltaic applications: Calculations based on density-functional theory and the Bethe-Salpeter equation

VK Solet, SK Pandey - Physical Review Applied, 2024 - APS
We conduct a comprehensive assessment of the electronic and optical properties, as well as
photovoltaic (PV) performance parameters, for low-cost, nontoxic Mg 2 Si and Ca 2 Si using …

Polarizable Continuum Models and Green's Function GW Formalism: On the Dynamics of the Solvent Electrons

I Duchemin, D Amblard, X Blase - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The many-body GW formalism, for the calculation of ionization potentials or electronic
affinities, relies on the frequency-dependent dielectric function built from the electronic …

All-Electron BSE@ GW Method with Numeric Atom-Centered Orbitals for Extended Periodic Systems

R Zhou, Y Yao, V Blum, X Ren… - Journal of Chemical …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Green's function theory has emerged as a powerful many-body approach not only in
condensed matter physics but also in quantum chemistry in recent years. We have …

First-principles computational methods for quantum defects in two-dimensional materials: A perspective

H Seo, V Ivády, Y Ping - Applied Physics Letters, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum defects are atomic defects in materials that provide resources to construct quantum
information devices such as single-photon emitters and spin qubits. Recently, two …

[HTML][HTML] Excited states from GW/BSE and Hartree–Fock theory: Effects of polarizability and transition type on accuracy of excited state energies

DT Waide, CH Patterson - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
GW and Bethe–Salpeter equation (BSE) methods are used to calculate energies of excited
states of organic molecules in the Quest-3 database [Loos et al., J. Chem. Theory Comput …

All-electron $ BSE@ GW $ method with Numeric Atom-Centered Orbitals for Extended Systems

R Zhou, Y Yao, V Blum, X Ren, Y Kanai - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.11122, 2024 - arxiv.org
Green's function theory has emerged as a powerful many-body approach not only in
condensed matter physics but also in quantum chemistry in recent years. We have …

Energy-Specific Bethe-Salpeter Equation Implementation for Efficient Optical Spectrum Calculations

C Hillenbrand, J Li, T Zhu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.24168, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present an energy-specific Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) implementation for efficient
core and valence optical spectrum calculations. In energy-specific BSE, high-lying excitation …