Estimating excitonic effects in the absorption spectra of solids: Problems and insight from a guided iteration scheme

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 14, 2015, Pages

  Rigamonti, Santiago ^a,b   Botti, Silvana ^b,c,d   Veniard, Valérie ^b,e   Draxl, Claudia ^a,b   Reining, Lucia ^b,e   Sottile, Francesco ^b,e  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF)   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e LABORATOIRE DES SOLIDES IRRADIÉS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; EXCITONS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ALTERNATIVE APPROXIMATION; ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; EXCITON-BINDING ENERGY; ITERATION SCHEMES; ITERATIVE SCHEMES; RANDOM PHASE APPROXIMATIONS; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

BINDING ENERGY;

EID: 84929629818     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.146402     Document Type: Article

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