yambo: An ab initio tool for excited state calculations

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 180, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1392-1403

  Marini, Andrea ^a,e   Hogan, Conor ^b,e   Grüning, Myrta ^c,e   Varsano, Daniele ^d,e  

^a Dipartimento di Fisica   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d INFM   (Italy)

^e European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility ETSF   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electronic structure; Excitons; Optical properties; Quasiparticles

Indexed keywords

A-PLANE; AB INITIO; BETHE-SALPETER EQUATION; BULK SYSTEM; CATALOGUE IDENTIFIERS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL; DIELECTRIC SCREENING; DISTRIBUTED PROGRAM; DYSON EQUATIONS; ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; EXCITED-STATE PROPERTIES; FIRST-PRINCIPLE; FORTRAN 95; GENERAL PUBLICS; GNU/LINUX; GW APPROXIMATION; IRELAND; MANY BODY PERTURBATION THEORY; NORM-CONSERVING PSEUDOPOTENTIALS; NUMBER OF DEGREES OF FREEDOM; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; PLANE-WAVE BASIS SET; POLE-MODEL; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; QUASI-PARTICLE APPROXIMATION; QUASIPARTICLE ENERGY; QUASIPARTICLES; REDUCED DIMENSIONALITY; RUNNING TIME; SCALAPACK; SELF ENERGY; SOLUTION METHODS; TEST DATA; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EXCITED STATES; EXCITONS; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMONS; TEST FACILITIES;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 67650964169     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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