Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2007-05-14
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 057401 (2007)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.057401
Measurable spectra are theoretically very often derived from complicated many-body Green's functions. In this way, one calculates much more information than actually needed. Here we present an in principle exact approach to construct effective potentials and kernels for the direct calculation of electronic spectra. In particular, the potential that yields the spectral function needed to describe photoemission turns out to be dynamical but {\it local} and {\it real}. As example we illustrate this ``photoemission potential'' for sodium and aluminium, modelled as homogeneous electron gas, and discuss in particular its frequency dependence stemming from the nonlocality of the corresponding self-energy. We also show that our approach leads to a very short derivation of a kernel that is known to well describe absorption and energy-loss spectra of a wide range of materials.
Gatti Matteo
Olevano Valerio
Reining Lucia
Tokatly Ilya V.
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