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Short-range excitonic phenomena in low-density metals

Jaakko Koskelo
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Matteo Gatti
  • Fonction : Auteur

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Excitonic effects in metals are commonly supposed to be weak, because the Coulomb interaction is strongly screened. We investigate the low-density regime of the homogeneous electron gas, where low-energy collective excitations and ghost modes were anticipated. Using the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE), we show that both phenomena exist thanks to reduced screening at short distances. This is not captured by common approximations used in ab initio BSE calculations, but requires vertex corrections that take the fermionic nature of charges into account. The electron-hole wavefunction of the low-energy modes shows strong and very anisotropic electron-hole correlation, which speaks for an excitonic character of these modes. The fact that short-range physics is at the origin of these phenomena explains why, on the other hand, also the simple adiabatic local density approximation to time-dependent density functional theory can capture these effects.

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hal-04297735 , version 1 (21-11-2023)

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Jaakko Koskelo, Lucia Reining, Matteo Gatti. Short-range excitonic phenomena in low-density metals. 2023. ⟨hal-04297735⟩
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