### Session X23: Many Body I

2:30 PM–4:30 PM, Thursday, March 18, 2010
Room: C125-C126

Chair: Tara Das, University at Albany-SUNY

Abstract ID: BAPS.2010.MAR.X23.2

### Abstract: X23.00002 : First Principles Absorption Spectra of Group IB and IIB Atoms and Dimers

2:42 PM–2:54 PM

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#### Authors:

Kopinjol Baishya
(University of Illinois at Chicago)

Serdar Ogut
(University of Illinois at Chicago)

We present absorption spectra of group IB and IIB atoms and dimers, obtained with two state-of-the-art computational methods using ab initio pseudopotentials: the many body perturbation technique GWBSE and the time-dependent density functional theory with the local density approximation (TDLDA). We compare the GWBSE and TDLDA spectra with each other and with available experimental data. A recent study has shown that semi-core s and p states are essential to reproduce accurate quasiparticle energies within the GW theory.$^{1}$ We extend this investigation to the case of optical excitations and examine the effect of semi-core states on the absorption spectra by carrying out TDLDA and GWBSE computations with standard and semi-core pseudopotentials. $^{1}$ M.Tiago, J.C.Idrobo, S.Ogut, J.Jellinek, and J.R.Chelikwosky, Phys. Rev. B 79, 155419 (2009).

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