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We present a review of recent progress in the first-principles study of the spectroscopic properties of solids and nanostructures employing a many-body Green’s function approach based on the GW approximation to the electron self-energy. The approach has been widely used to investigate the excitedstate properties of condensed matter as probed by photoemission, tunneling, optical, and related techniques. In this article, we first give a brief overview of the theoretical foundations of the approach, then present a sample of applications to systems ranging from extended solids to surfaces to nanostructures and discuss some possible ideas for further developments.
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Louie, S.G., Rubio, A. (2005). Quasiparticle and Optical Properties of Solids and Nanostructures: The GW-BSE Approach. In: Yip, S. (eds) Handbook of Materials Modeling. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3286-8_12
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