PhD position at CINaM/Aix-Marseille Université on Theory of High-Harmonic Generation A PhD position is available in the Theory and Numerical Simulations group at CINaM, Marseille, France (see: https://www.cinam.univ-mrs.fr/) under the supervision of Claudio Attaccalite , Aurélien Manchon and Fabienne Michelini (IM2NP). The expected start date from October/November 2023 or later. The PhD project will deal… Read More
This yers I’m been invited to give a lecture at the “Theoretical Spectroscopy Lectures” that will be held in Lausanne from March 21st to March 25th.The school focuses on these points, covering theoretical, practical, and also numerical aspects of TDDFT and MBPT, and codes implementing them (ABINIT, DP, 2Light, EXC). -Spectroscopy techniques. Connection between microscopic… Read More
Single-layer monochalcogenides have recently attracted much attention in the scientific community for their strong non-linear response, in particular the second harmonic generation(SHG). The origin of this strong response is still debated. A strong mismatch exist between theory and experiments. In order to clarify this issue, in this work we performed first-principles calculation of linear and… Read More
This year I was invited to give two lectures at the school on “Theoretical Spectroscopy” organized by F. Sottile, V. Olevano and G. Rignanese. I will present two lectures on “Non-linear approaches to TDDFT :: non perturbative real-time” and “Bethe-Salpeter Equation in real time” and a tutorial on the Lumen code. All the lectures are… Read More
In this work we combine tight-binding calculations of the two-photon transition probability with sophisticated ab-initio real-time Bethe-Salpeter simulations of the two-photon resonance third-order susceptibility. This combination is a unique feature of this work: on the one hand the tight-binding calculations allow us to identify the symmetry properties of the excitons, on the other hand the… Read More
My collaborator Myrta Grüning gave a very interesting talk about the role of excitons in non-linear optical properties of 2D materials at the OSI 2017 conference. She discusses both second and third harmonic generation in low dimensional nanostructures. Slides of her talk are available here .
Here my new two talks at the 2017 ETSF conference in Franscati. The first on Scientific Publishing and the SciPost journal where I will discuss the actual situation of the scientific publishing system and how new green open access journal, like SciPost, could change it. The second talk on the Lumen code, an ab-initio code… Read More
My code to calculate non-linear response in solids and nanostructure is finally online. The first tutorials are available, and soon I will finish the other ones. Full free to use it and let me know if you find bugs or strange things.
The first draft of my thesis for the accreditation to direct research (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) is available online. The thesis covers my studies of the non-linear response in solids and nanostructures by means of real-time simulations. In the thesis I discuss how to couple electrons and external fields by means of Modern Theory… Read More
We present a new paper on Density Functional Polarization Theory (DFPT). This theory is an extension of Time-Dependent-DFT where the exchange correlation functional depends not only from the density but also from the polarization P. Thanks to this explicit dependence on P it is possible solve different problems of TD-DFT in periodic systems with a… Read More