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Ab initio calculation of excitonic effects in the optical spectra of semiconductors

Stefan Albrecht, Lucia Reining, Rodolfo Del Sole, Giovanni Onida

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9803194

Abstract

An ab initio approach to the calculation of excitonic effects in the optical absorption spectra of semiconductors and insulators is formulated. It starts from a quasiparticle bandstructure calculation and is based on the relevant Bethe--Salpeter equation. An application to bulk silicon shows a substantial improvement with respect to previous calculations in the description of the experimental spectrum, for both peak positions and lineshape.

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