Numerical integration for ab initio many-electron self energy calculations within the GW approximation
Abstract
We present a numerical integration scheme for evaluating the convolution of a Green's function with a screened Coulomb potential on the real axis in the GW approximation of the self energy. Our scheme takes the zero broadening limit in Green's function first, replaces the numerator of the integrand with a piecewise polynomial approximation, and performs principal value integration on subintervals analytically. We give the error bound of our numerical integration scheme and show by numerical examples that it is more reliable and accurate than the standard quadrature rules such as the composite trapezoidal rule. We also discuss the benefit of using different self energy expressions to perform the numerical convolution at different frequencies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1402.5433,
title = {Numerical integration for ab initio many-electron self energy calculations within the GW approximation},
author = {Fang Liu and Lin Lin and Derek Vigil-Fowler and Johannes Lischner and Alexander F. Kemper and Sahar Sharifzadeh and Felipe Homrich da Jornada and Jack Deslippe and Chao Yang and Jeffrey B. Neaton and Steven G. Louie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.5433},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
22 pages, 9 figures