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The GW approximation within many-body perturbation theory is the state of the art for computing quasiparticle energies in solids. Typically, Kohn-Sham (KS) eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, obtained from a Density Functional Theory (DFT)…

Plutonium (Pu), in which the 5$f$ valence electrons always wander the boundary between localized and itinerant states, exhibits quite complex crystal structures and unprecedentedly anomalous properties with respect to temperature and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-26 Li Huang , Haiyan Lu

We present a simplified computational scheme in order to calculate the effects of electron correlations on the energy bands of diamond and silicon. By adopting a quasiparticle picture we compute first the relaxation and polarization effects…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-07 Uwe Birkenheuer , Peter Fulde , Hermann Stoll

The physical properties of plutonium and plutonium-based intermetallic compounds are extremely sensitive to temperature, pressure, and chemical alloying. A celebrated example is the high-temperature $\delta$ phase plutonium, which can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-15 Li Huang , Haiyan Lu

We perform $GW$ calculations on atoms and diatomic molecules at different levels of self-consistency and investigate the effects of self-consistency on total energies, ionization potentials and on particle number conservation. We further…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Adrian Stan , Nils Erik Dahlen , Robert van Leeuwen

Two self-consistent schemes involving Hedin's $GW$ approximation are studied for a set of sixteen different atoms and small molecules. We compare results from the fully self-consistent $GW$ approximation (SC$GW$) and the quasi-particle…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 Peter Koval , Dietrich Foerster , Daniel Sánchez-Portal

We present the formalism and implementation of quasi-particle self-consistent GW (qsGW) and eigenvalue only quasi-particle self-consistent GW (evGW) adapted to standard quantum chemistry packages. Our implementation is benchmarked against…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 F. Kaplan , M. E. Harding , C. Seiler , F. Weigend , F. Evers , M. J. van Setten

The band structure of $\beta$-LiGaO$_2$ is calculated using the quasiparticle self-consistent QS$G\hat W$ method where the screened Coulomb interaction $\hat W$ is evaluated including electron-hole interaction ladder diagrams and $G$ is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-26 Niloufar Dadkhah , Walter R. L. Lambrecht , Dimitar Pashov , Mark van Schilfgaarde

Within the framework of the full potential projector-augmented wave methodology, we present a promising low-scaling $GW$ implementation. It allows for quasiparticle calculations with a scaling that is cubic in the system size and linear in…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-12 Peitao Liu , Merzuk Kaltak , Jiří Klimeš , Georg Kresse

We analyze a data set comprising 370 GW band structures composed of 61716 quasiparticle (QP) energies of two-dimensional (2D) materials spanning 14 crystal structures and 52 elements. The data results from PAW plane wave based one-shot…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-05 Asbjørn Rasmussen , Thorsten Deilmann , Kristian S. Thygesen

The quasiparticle bands of diamond, a prototype covalent insulator, are herein studied by means of wave-function electronic-structure theory, with emphasis on the nature of the correlation hole around a bare particle. Short-range…

First principles linear combinations of Gaussian type orbitals-fitting function (LCGTO-FF) electronic structure calculations are used to study thickness dependencies in the surface energies and work functions of ultra-thin (111) films of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 A. K. Ray , J. C. Boettger

We introduce an alternative route to quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ calculations ($\mathrm{qs}GW$) on the basis of a Joint Approximate Diagonalization of the one-body $GW$ Green's functions $G(\varepsilon_n^{QP})$ taken at the input…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-05 Ivan Duchemin , Xavier Blase

We develop a new implementation of the Gutzwiller approximation (GA) and interface it with the local density approximation (LDA). This formulation enables us to study complex $4f$ and $5f$ systems. We perform calculations of praseodymium…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-11 Nicola Lanatà , Yongxin Yao , Cai-Zhuang Wang , Kai-Ming Ho , Gabriel Kotliar

Electronic correlations associated with incipient magnetism have long been recognized as an important factor in stabilizing the largest atomic volume $\delta$ phase of plutonium, yet their strength compared to those in the rare earths and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-10 M. Wartenbe , P. H. Tobash , J. Singleton , L. E. Winter , S. Richmond , N. Harrison

We present the results of calculations for Pu and Am performed using an implementation of self-consistent relativistic GW method. The key feature of our scheme is to evaluate polarizability and self-energy in real space and Matsubara's…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Kutepov , K. Haule , S. Y. Savrasov , G. Kotliar

We present quasiparticle self-consistent GW (QSGW) calculations of semimetallic bulk Bi. We go beyond the conventional QSGW method by including the spin-orbit coupling throughout the self-consistency cycle. This approach improves the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-27 Irene Aguilera , Christoph Friedrich , Stefan Blügel

We explore the electronic structure of paramagnetic CrSBr by comparative first principles calculations and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We theoretically approximate the paramagnetic phase using a supercell hosting spin…

The electronic structure of surfaces and interfaces plays a key role in the properties of quantum devices. Here, we study the electronic structure of realistic Al/InAs/Al heterojunctions using a combination of density functional theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 H. Ness , F. Corsetti , D. Pashov , B. Verstichel , G. W. Winkler , M. van Schilfgaarde , R. M. Lutchyn

Electronic structure of layered van der Waals ferromagnet CrI$_{3}$ is studied with self consistent diagrammatic approaches beyond GW approximation. Considerable improvement in the calculated band gap as compared to the non-self-consistent…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-01 Andrey L. Kutepov