Time-dependent density-functional theory for ultrafast interband excitations

Details Time-dependent density-functional theory for ultrafast interband excitations Time-dependent density-functional theory for ultrafast interband excitations

2007-09-19

arxiv.org/abs/0709.3037v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.77.075204

We formulate a time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) in terms of the density matrix to study ultrafast phenomena in semiconductor structures. A system of equations for the density matrix components, which is equivalent to the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equation, is derived. From this we obtain a TDDFT version of the semiconductor Bloch equations, where the electronic many-body effects are taken into account in principle exactly. As an example, we study the optical response of a three-dimensional two-band insulator to an external short-time pulsed laser field. We show that the optical absorption spectrum acquires excitonic features when the exchange-correlation potential contains a $1/q^{2}$ Coulomb singularity. A qualitative comparison of the TDDFT optical absorption spectra with the corresponding results obtained within the Hartree-Fock approximation is made.

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