Description
The Green’s function formalism from many-body perturbation theory gives access to electronic structure calculation within the quasiparticle picture, as well as provides for calculating optical absorption spectra. Within the traditional ansatz [1], a Bethe-Salpeter like equation for the polarizability is solved. This requires to diagonalize an in general non-hermitian and complex matrix (BSE matrix). Usually, the off-diagonal elements of the BSE matrix are neglected and this is referred to as Tamm-Dancoff approximation. The computational effort can be reduced by using the time-evolution ansatz [2] which avoids the matrix diagonalization. We present a method based on the time-evolution algorithm, that finally avoids storing and diagonalizing the BSE matrix. This leads to a reduction of the scaling w.r.t the system size N from N5 to N3. Finally, we present first results for typical systems. [1] S. Albrecht, L. Reining, R. Del Sole, G. Onida, PRL 80, 4510 (1998) W. G. Schmidt, S. Glutsch, P. H. Hahn, F. Bechstedt, PRB 67, 085307 (2003)| Period | 3 Apr 2014 |
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| Event title | DPG Frühjahrstagung der Sektion Kondensierte Materie (SKM), Dresden 2014 |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Dresden, GermanyShow on map |