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Electronic excitations: density-functional versus many-body Green’s-function approaches

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Onida, Giovanni, Reining, Lucia, Rubio, Angel·2002·Reviews of Modern Physics
DOI 10.1103/revmodphys.74.601
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Electronic excitations lie at the origin of most of the commonly measured spectra. However, the first-principles computation of excited states requires a larger effort than ground-state calculations, which can be very efficiently carried out within density-functional theory. On the other hand, two theoretical and computational tools have come to prominence for the description of electronic excitations. One of them, many-body perturbation theory, is based on a set of Green's-function equations, starting with a one-electron propagator and considering the electron-hole Green's function for the response. Key ingredients are the electron's self-energy \ensuremath{\Sigma} and the electron-hole interaction. A good approximation for \ensuremath{\Sigma} is obtained with Hedin's $\mathrm{GW}$ approach, using density-functional theory as a zero-order solution. First-principles $\mathrm{GW}$ calculations for real systems have been successfully carried out since the 1980s. Similarly, the electron-hole interaction is well described by the Bethe-Salpeter equation, via a functional derivative of \ensuremath{\Sigma}. An alternative approach to calculating electronic excitations is the time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT), which offers the important practical advantage of a dependence on density rather than on multivariable Green's functions. This approach leads to a screening equation similar to the Bethe-Salpeter one, but with a two-point, rather than a four-point, interaction kernel. At present, the simple adiabatic local-density approximation has given promising results for finite systems, but has significant deficiencies in the description of absorption spectra in solids, leading to wrong excitation energies, the absence of bound excitonic states, and appreciable distortions of the spectral line shapes. The search for improved TDDFT potentials and kernels is hence a subject of increasing interest. It can be addressed within the framework of many-body perturbation theory: in fact, both the Green's functions and the TDDFT approaches profit from mutual insight. This review compares the theoretical and practical aspects of the two approaches and their specific numerical implementations, and presents an overview of accomplishments and work in progress.

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Authors
Onida, G., Reining, L., & Rubio, A.
Affiliations
University of Rome Tor Vergata (IT)
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Venue
Reviews of Modern Physics
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Published
2002-06-07
Volume
74
Issue
2
Pages
601-659
ISSN
  • 0034-6861 (ISSN-L)
  • 1539-0756
DOI
10.1103/revmodphys.74.601
OpenAlex
W2053499780
Cited by
4,155
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FWCI
48.69
Type
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Language
en
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Locations
  • Reviews of Modern Physics (publishedVersion)
  • DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
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  • European Commission
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Condensed Matter Physics › Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
Keywords
electronic excitation, excited states, GW approximation, Bethe-Salpeter equation, time-dependent density functional theory, many-body perturbation theory, Green's function, electron self-energy, electron-hole interaction, adiabatic local density approximation, absorption spectra, spectral line shape, excitonic states

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