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 .
My new talk for the GDR-Corr is available online. In this talk I will present our new (probably not so new now) approach to calculate non-linear response in extended systems within the GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation. I put different references in the presentation that can be interesting for the reader.
We present an ab-initio real-time based computational approach to nonlinear optical properties in Condensed Matter systems[1]. The equation of motions, and in particular the coupling of the electrons with the external electric field, are derived from the Berry phase formulation of the dynamical polarization.[2] The zero-field Hamiltonian includes crystal local field effects and the renormalization… Read More