Photon Many-body Dispersion: an Exchange-correlation Functional for Strongly Coupled Light-matter Systems

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Autori principali: Tasci, Cankut, Cunha, Leonardo A., Flick, Johannes
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author Tasci, Cankut
Cunha, Leonardo A.
Flick, Johannes
author_facet Tasci, Cankut
Cunha, Leonardo A.
Flick, Johannes
contents We introduce an electron-photon exchange-correlation functional for quantum electrodynamical density-functional theory (QEDFT). The approach, photon MBD (pMBD), is inspired by the many-body dispersion (MBD) method for weak intermolecular interactions, which is generalized to include both electronic and photonic (electromagnetic) degrees of freedom on the same footing. We demonstrate that pMBD accurately captures effects that arise in the context of strong light-matter interactions, such as anisotropic electron-photon interactions, beyond single-photon effects, and cavity modulated van der Waals interactions. Moreover, we show that pMBD is computationally efficient and allows simulations of large complex systems coupled to optical cavities.
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spellingShingle Photon Many-body Dispersion: an Exchange-correlation Functional for Strongly Coupled Light-matter Systems
Tasci, Cankut
Cunha, Leonardo A.
Flick, Johannes
Chemical Physics
Materials Science
Computational Physics
Quantum Physics
We introduce an electron-photon exchange-correlation functional for quantum electrodynamical density-functional theory (QEDFT). The approach, photon MBD (pMBD), is inspired by the many-body dispersion (MBD) method for weak intermolecular interactions, which is generalized to include both electronic and photonic (electromagnetic) degrees of freedom on the same footing. We demonstrate that pMBD accurately captures effects that arise in the context of strong light-matter interactions, such as anisotropic electron-photon interactions, beyond single-photon effects, and cavity modulated van der Waals interactions. Moreover, we show that pMBD is computationally efficient and allows simulations of large complex systems coupled to optical cavities.
title Photon Many-body Dispersion: an Exchange-correlation Functional for Strongly Coupled Light-matter Systems
topic Chemical Physics
Materials Science
Computational Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04765