Exciting: A full-potential all-electron package implementing density-functional theory and many-body perturbation theory

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 26, Issue 36, 2014, Pages

  Gulans, Andris ^a   Kontur, Stefan ^a   Meisenbichler, Christian ^a   Nabok, Dmitrii ^a   Pavone, Pasquale ^a   Rigamonti, Santiago ^a   Sagmeister, Stephan ^b   Werner, Ute ^a   Draxl, Claudia ^a,c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^c European Theoretical Spectroscopic Facility (ETSF)   (United States)

Author keywords

DFT; GW; LAPW; TDDFT

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; EXCITONS; LINEARIZATION;

DFT; EXCHANGE-CORRELATION KERNEL; GW; LAPW; MAGNETO-OPTICAL KERR EFFECTS; MANY BODY PERTURBATION THEORY; TDDFT; THERMAL EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84906351152     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/36/363202     Document Type: Article

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