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Optical Properties

dielectric function in micro-scale

where:

  • : Change in charge density
  • : Electric susceptibility
  • : External potential change
  • : Polarization function
  • : dielectric function
  • : total potential change, which is sum of changes in the external potential and induced one

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the short formula is used above equations

From these equations, we obtain the following equations straightforwardly

where:

  • : Coulomb potential

RPA Approxiamation:

where

  • : Kohn-Sham density response function

macroscale dielectric function

without local field correction

in this case, the macroscoptic dielectric function is obtained by following way

only, component of is needed, being the low computational cost.

local field correction

in this case, all matrix element of is needed to calculate the inverse of matrix. See the Adler for the details.

relation with optical functions

  • : refractive index
  • : extinction coeffcient
  • : reflectance