Category Archives: berry phase

Theoretical Spectroscopy Lectures

This year I was invited to give two lectures at the school on “Theoretical Spectroscopy” organized by F. Sottile, V. Olevano and G. Rignanese. I will present two lectures on “Non-linear approaches to TDDFT :: non perturbative real-time” and “Bethe-Salpeter Equation in real time” and a tutorial on the Lumen code. All the lectures are… Read More

New poster on real-time DPFT

A new poster on our work on real-time density polarization functional theory. In presence of a time-dependent macroscopic electric field the electron dynamics of dielectrics cannot be described by the time-dependent density only. We present a real-time formalism that has the density and the macroscopic polarization P as key quantities. We show that a simple… Read More

Nonlinear response of solids within the GW plus Bethe-Salpeter approximation

My new talk for the GDR-Corr is available online. In this talk I will present our new (probably not so new now) approach to calculate non-linear response in extended systems within the GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation. I  put different references in the presentation that can be interesting for the reader.

Nonlinear optics by means of the dynamical Berry-phase

We present an ab-initio real-time based computational approach to nonlinear optical properties in Condensed Matter systems[1]. The equation of motions, and in particular the coupling of the electrons with the external electric field, are derived from the Berry phase formulation of the dynamical polarization.[2] The zero-field Hamiltonian includes crystal local field effects and the renormalization… Read More