Nonequilibrium Green's Function approach to time-resolved photoabsorption

We propose a nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) approach to calculate the time-resolved absorption spectrum of nanoscale systems [1]. We can deal with arbitrary shape, intensity, duration and relative delay of the pump and probe fields and include ionization processes as well as hybridization effects due to surfaces. We present numerical simulations of atomic systems using different approximate self-energies and show that electron correlations are pivotal to reproduce important qualitative features. [1] E. Perfetto. A.-M. Uimonen, R. van Leeuwen and G. Stefanucci, Phys. Rev. A 92, 033419 (2015) [2] E. Perfetto, D. Sangalli, A. Marini and G. Stefanucci, Phys. Rev. B, accepted