TY - JOUR KW - ab-initio KW - excited states KW - paper AU - Maurizia Palummo AU - M. Bruno AU - Olivia Pulci AU - E Luppi AU - Elena Degoli AU - Stefano Ossicini AU - Rodolfo Del Sole AB - Low dimensional systems, such as nanodots, nanotubes, nanowires, have attracted great interest in the last years, due to their possible application in nanodevices. It is hence very important to describe accurately their electronic and optical properties within highly reliable and efficient ab-initio approaches. Density functional theory (DFT) has become in the last 20 years the standard technique for studying the ground-state properties, but this method often shows significant deviations from the experiment when electronic excited states are involved. The use of many-body Green\textquoterights functions theory, with DFT calculations taken as the zero order approximation, is today the state-of-the-art technique for obtaining quasi-particle excitation energies and optical spectra. In this paper we will present the current status of this theoretical and computational approach, showing results for different kinds of low dimensional systems. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. BT - SURFACE SCIENCE CY - PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS DA - JUL 1 DO - 10.1016/j.susc.2006.12.019 M1 - 13 N1 - International Conference on NANO-Structures Self Assembling, Aix en Provence, FRANCE, JUL 02-06, 2006 N2 - Low dimensional systems, such as nanodots, nanotubes, nanowires, have attracted great interest in the last years, due to their possible application in nanodevices. It is hence very important to describe accurately their electronic and optical properties within highly reliable and efficient ab-initio approaches. Density functional theory (DFT) has become in the last 20 years the standard technique for studying the ground-state properties, but this method often shows significant deviations from the experiment when electronic excited states are involved. The use of many-body Green\textquoterights functions theory, with DFT calculations taken as the zero order approximation, is today the state-of-the-art technique for obtaining quasi-particle excitation energies and optical spectra. In this paper we will present the current status of this theoretical and computational approach, showing results for different kinds of low dimensional systems. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. PB - ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV PP - PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS PY - 2007 SP - 2696 EP - 2701 T2 - SURFACE SCIENCE TI - Ab-initio electronic and optical properties of low dimensional systems: From single particle to many-body approaches UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.susc.2006.12.019 VL - 601 ER -