Static screening

In this module you will learn how to calculate the static screening. This is the first step in the calculation of optical spectra within the Bethe-Salpeter framework.

Background

To calculate the correlation part of the kernel W we need the static dielectric screening. This is a calculation of the linear response of the system analogous to the calculation of the RPA/IP dielectric function. One important difference is that here we consider the static dielectric function.

Prerequisites

• You must first complete the "How to use Yambo" modules

You will need:

• The SAVE databases for 3D hBN
• The yambo executable

Choosing input parameters

First, we need to initialize the yambo SAVE by just typing

$ yambo

Next, we generate the input by invoking yambo with the option "-X s" from the command line:

$ yambo -X s -F 01_3D_BSE_screening.in

The input opens in the standard editor. Similarly to the other linear response calculations the relevant input variables to be changed are:

% BndsRnXs
  1 | 40 |                 
%
 NGsBlkXs= 4000 mRy

The first variable gives how many bands are included in the sum to calculate the static response function. The second is a cutoff for the dimension of the static dielectric matrix.

In a subsequent tutorial you will see how to choose these two parameters. Another relevant input parameter to change is

% LongDrXs
 1.000 | 1.000| 1.000
%

In this way the perturbing electric field has components in each direction.

Static screening runlevel

Run the calculation by invoking yambo:

$ yambo -F 01_3D_BSE_screening.in -J 3D_BSE 

In the log of the calculation - found either in the file l_3D_BSE_screen_dipoles_em1s, if you used mpirun, or directly printed on the terminal, if you ran yambo as is - you can see that after calculating the dipole matrix elements, for each q vector yambo calculates the IP response function and by inversion the RPA response function

<02s> Xo@q[1] |########################################| [100%] --(E) --(X)
<02s> X@q[1] |########################################| [100%] --(E) --(X)

In the report, r-3D_BSE_dipoles_em1s, the details of the calculations are reported under the 5th section

[05] Static Dielectric Matrix
=============================

This calculation does not produce any human readable output, but both the dipole matrix elements and the static screening dielectric function are saved in a database in the 3D_BSE directory:

3D_BSE/ndb.dipoles 
3D_BSE/ndb.em1s
3D_BSE/ndb.dipoles
3D_BSE/ndb.em1s_fragment_*

which are needed in the BS kernel runlevel.

Summary

From this tutorial you've learned:

• How to compute the static screening as first step in a BSE calculation

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