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从分子到晶体的光谱:多体微扰理论的启示

Optical spectra from molecules to crystals: Insight from many-body perturbation theory

Caterina Cocchi, Claudia Draxl

摘要:

含时密度泛函理论(TDDFT)经常成功地再现有限系统的激发能,已经在绝热局域密度近似(ALDA)。在这里,我们展示了典型的分子材料,即,低聚噻吩,ALDA在很大程度上失败,并解释为什么会这样。通过比较TDDFT与基于多体微扰理论的深入分析,我们表明,关联效应不仅对分子的长度增加和结晶环境中的光激发的能量和性质有着至关重要的影响,而且对孤立的小分子也是如此。我们认为,只有高层次的方法,其中明确包括相关效应,可以重现光学光谱的分子材料具有相同的精度,从气相到晶体结构。

英文摘要:

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) often successfully reproduces excitation energies of finite systems, already in the adiabatic local-density approximation (ALDA). Here we show for prototypical molecular materials, i.e., oligothiophenes, that ALDA largely fails and explain why this is so. By comparing TDDFT with an in-depth analysis based on many-body perturbation theory, we demonstrate that correlation effects crucially impact energies and character of the optical excitations not only for molecules of increasing length and in crystalline environment, but even for isolated small molecules. We argue that only high-level methodologies, which explicitly include correlation effects, can reproduce optical spectra of molecular materials with equal accuracy from gas phase to crystal structures.

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