24–27 Aug 2026
Paul Scherrer Institut
Europe/Zurich timezone

Efficient Nonequilibrium Green’s Function Methods for Time-Resolved Spectroscopy

25 Aug 2026, 09:35
35m
Auditorium (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Auditorium

Paul Scherrer Institut

Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI Switzerland
Invited Talk

Speaker

Prof. Vojtěch Vlček (UC Santa Barbara)

Description

Time-resolved spectroscopies provide direct access to observables that encode information about transient excited states and dynamical correlations in quantum materials. In this talk, I will present recent developments in efficient diagrammatic approaches for computing time-resolved spectral functions, centered on the Real-Time Dyson Expansion (RTDE), which reconstructs the time-nonlocal correlations through a perturbative expansion around nonequilibrium reduced density matrix trajectories while retaining the favorable scaling of single-time propagation schemes. I will discuss recent extensions of this framework to driven-dissipative systems, comparisons with the Kadanoff-Baym equations and the generalized Kadanoff-Baym ansatz. Further, I will comment on the role of self-consistency and Markovianity in describing transient spectral properties. Applications to photoexcited correlated semiconductors demonstrate the emergence of excitonic satellites, quasiparticle renormalization, and band-gap dynamics, illustrating how efficient NEGF methods can provide predictive simulations of modern ultrafast spectroscopic experiments.

Author

Prof. Vojtěch Vlček (UC Santa Barbara)

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