QSGW: Quasiparticle Self consistent GW with ladder diagrams in W
Abstract
We present an approach to calculate the electronic structure for a range of materials using the quasiparticle self-consistent GW method with vertex corrections included in the screened Coulomb interaction W. This is achieved by solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation for the polarization matrix at all k-points in the Brillouin zone. We refer to this method as QSGW^. We show that including ladder diagrams in W can greatly reduce the band gap overestimation of RPA-based QSGW. The resultant discrepency of the calculated band gap in this method is then attributed mostly to the fact that electron-phonon contributions to W are neglected; which would allow one to then obtain an estimate for the size of this effect. We present results for a range of systems from simple sp semiconductors to the strongly correlated systems NiO and CoO. Results for systems where the RPA-based QSGW band gap is larger than expected are investigated, and an estimate for the Frolich contribution to the gap is included in a few polar compounds where QSGW can overestimate the gap by as much as 2 eV. The improvement over QSGW for the dielectric constants is also presented
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@article{arxiv.2106.05759,
title = {QSGW: Quasiparticle Self consistent GW with ladder diagrams in W},
author = {Brian Cunningham and Myrta Gruening and Dimitar Pashov and Mark van Schilfgaarde},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.05759},
year = {2023}
}
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