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Hello,

I'm aware that it's possible to extract the oscillator strength of excitons solving the BSE via diagonalization. I would like to know with there is an implemented way of extracting these oscillator str. from the inversion method. If it is not, is it possible to use an alternative version of the double grid method that is compatible with the direct diagonalization ?

Regards,

Dear Bruno,
for the double grid, we are currently working on an implementation via the Haydock solver.
It is not yet released, but it will be soon, hopefully:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11174
The oscillator strength can be extracted from the plot of the dielectric function. If you need to resolve a specific exciton you can try to use a very small smearing parameter.

Instead, the excitonic wave-function can only be extracted via diagonalization.
You may consider using the slepc solver to this end: http://www.yambo-code.org/wiki/index.ph ... ver:_SLEPC
Please notice that yambo needs to be compiled with Best,
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Hello,

Thank you very much for your reply, I'll look into the slepc solver. Just a small question, how is it compared to the diagonalization solver? In terms of memory consumption for example, is it similar?

Regards,

Dear Bruno,
the slepc solver being an iterative method should be faster and less memory consuming than the full diagonalization.
the drawback is that you have access to a limited number of eigenvectors which also affect the resulting spectrum for energies larger than the energy of the last calculated excited state, that can be anyway calculated using the haydock solver.

Best,
Daniele

Very interesting! Thank you very much. I'll look into it.

Regards,