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Namely, after a brief review of the standard many-body semiconductor Bloch and Bethe-Salpether equation (SBE and BSE) and a combined TDDFT+BSE approaches, we proceed with details of the proposed pure TDDFT XC kernels for excitons. We analyze the reasons for successes and failures of these kernels in describing the excitons in bulk GaAs and monolayer MoS2, and conclude with a discussion of possible alternative kernels capable of accurately describing the bound electron-hole states in both bulk and two-dimensional materials.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/computation5030039","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,25]],"date-time":"2017-08-25T11:03:17Z","timestamp":1503658997000},"page":"39","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory and Excitons in Bulk and Two-Dimensional Semiconductors"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"5","author":[{"given":"Volodymyr","family":"Turkowski","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-2385, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Naseem","family":"Din","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-2385, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Talat","family":"Rahman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-2385, USA"},{"name":"Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, P.O. 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