TY - JOUR KW - paper AU - Silvana Botti AB - The progress of experimental techniques makes more and more precise measurements available. Their interpretation requires improved theoretical tools. The time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) allows to study electronic excitations involved in spectroscopic experiments, possibly conserving a computational effort comparable to that of ground-state density functional theory. I will present some applications of TDDFT to the calculation of absorption and electron energy loss spectra in extended and finite systems, discussing the advantages and the limits of different approximation schemes. BT - PHYSICA SCRIPTA CY - DIRAC HOUSE, TEMPLE BACK, BRISTOL BS1 6BE, ENGLAND N2 - The progress of experimental techniques makes more and more precise measurements available. Their interpretation requires improved theoretical tools. The time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) allows to study electronic excitations involved in spectroscopic experiments, possibly conserving a computational effort comparable to that of ground-state density functional theory. I will present some applications of TDDFT to the calculation of absorption and electron energy loss spectra in extended and finite systems, discussing the advantages and the limits of different approximation schemes. PB - IOP PUBLISHING LTD PP - DIRAC HOUSE, TEMPLE BACK, BRISTOL BS1 6BE, ENGLAND PY - 2004 SP - 54 EP - 60 T2 - PHYSICA SCRIPTA TI - Applications of time-dependent density functional theory VL - T109 ER -