Optical Absorption Study by Ab initio Downfolding Approach: Application to GaAs

Details Optical Absorption Study by Ab initio Downfolding Approach: Application to GaAs Optical Absorption Study by Ab initio Downfolding Approach: Application to GaAs

2007-10-24

arxiv.org/abs/0710.4371v1

Phys. Rev. B 77, 195126 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

14 pages, 6 figures, and 1 table

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.77.195126

We examine whether essence and quantitative aspects of electronic excitation spectra are correctly captured by an effective low-energy model constructed from an {\em ab initio} downfolding scheme. A global electronic structure is first calculated by {\em ab initio} density-functional calculations with the generalized gradient approximation. With the help of constrained density functional theory, the low-energy effective Hamiltonian for bands near the Fermi level is constructed by the downfolding procedure in the basis of maximally localized Wannier functions. The excited states of this low-energy effective Hamiltonian ascribed to an extended Hubbard model are calculated by using a low-energy solver. As the solver, we employ the Hartree-Fock approximation supplemented by the single-excitation configuration-interaction method considering electron-hole interactions. The present three-stage method is applied to GaAs, where eight bands are retained in the effective model after the downfolding. The resulting spectra well reproduce the experimental results, indicating that our downfolding scheme offers a satisfactory framework of the electronic structure calculation, particularly for the excitations and dynamics as well as for the ground state.

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