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Joint Approximate Diagonalization approach to Quasiparticle Self-Consistent $GW$ calculations

Materials Science 2024-12-05 v1 Computational Physics

Abstract

We introduce an alternative route to quasiparticle self-consistent GWGW calculations (qsGW\mathrm{qs}GW) on the basis of a Joint Approximate Diagonalization of the one-body GWGW Green's functions G(εnQP)G(\varepsilon_n^{QP}) taken at the input quasiparticle energies. Such an approach allows working with the full dynamical self-energy, without approximating the latter by a symmetrized static form as in the standard qsGW\mathrm{qs}GW scheme. Calculations on the GWGW100 molecular test set lead nevertheless to a good agreement, at the 65 meV mean-absolute-error accuracy on the ionization potential, with respect to the conventional qsGW\mathrm{qs}GW approach. We show further that constructing the density matrix from the full Green's function as in the fully self-consistent scGW\mathrm{sc}GW scheme, and not from the occupied quasiparticle one-body orbitals, allows obtaining a scheme intermediate between qsGW\mathrm{qs}GW and scGW\mathrm{sc}GW approaches, closer to CCSD(T) reference values.

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@article{arxiv.2412.03394,
  title  = {Joint Approximate Diagonalization approach to Quasiparticle Self-Consistent $GW$ calculations},
  author = {Ivan Duchemin and Xavier Blase},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.03394},
  year   = {2024}
}
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