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We introduce a systematic hierarchy of one-body Green's function methods derived from the $GW$ approximation, constructed by progressively reducing the dynamical content of the self-energy. Starting from the fully dynamical Dyson…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Pierre-François Loos , Johannes Tölle

We present a nontrivial model system of interacting electrons that can be solved analytically in the GW approximation. We obtain the particle number from the GW Green's function strictly analytically, and prove that there is a genuine…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-03 Arno Schindlmayr

Electron correlation in finite and extended systems is often described in an effective single-particle framework within the $GW$ approximation. Here, we use the statically screened second-order exchange contribution to the self-energy…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-18 Arno Förster , Lucas Visscher

The $GW$ approximation has become an important tool for predicting charged excitations of isolated molecules and condensed systems. Its popularity can be attributed to many factors, including a favorable scaling and relatively good…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Daniel Mejia-Rodriguez

In past decades the scientific community has been looking for a reliable first-principles method to predict the electronic structure of solids with high accuracy. Here we present an approach which we call the quasiparticle self-consistent…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 M. van Schilfgaarde , T. Kotani , S. Faleev

The fully self-consistent GW approximation is an established method for electronic structure calculations. Its most serious deficiency is known to be an incorrect prediction of the dielectric response. In this work we examine the GW…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-24 Kris Van Houcke , Igor S. Tupitsyn , Andrey S. Mishchenko , Nikolay V. Prokof'ev

The good performance of the GW approximation for band-structure calculations in solids was long taken as a sign that the sum of self-energy diagrams is converged and that all omitted terms are small. However, with modern computational…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Arno Schindlmayr

Novel results for the self-consistent single-particle spectral function and self-energy are presented for non-degenerate one-component Coulomb systems at various densities and temperatures. The GW^0-method for the dynamical self-energy is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Carsten Fortmann

Ab initio many-body perturbation theory within the $GW$ approximation is a Green's function formalism widely used in the calculation of quasiparticle excitation energies of solids. In what has become an increasingly standard approach,…

We expand on a recently introduced alternate framework for $GW$ simulation of charged excitations [Scott et. al., J. Chem. Phys., 158, 124102 (2023)], based around the conservation of directly computed spectral moments of the GW…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Oliver J. Backhouse , Marcus K. Allen , Charles C. J. Scott , George H. Booth

The GW approximation of many-body perturbation theory is an accurate method for computing electron addition and removal energies of molecules and solids. In a canonical implementation, however, its computational cost is $O(N^4)$ in the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Jan Wilhelm , Dorothea Golze , Leopold Talirz , Jürg Hutter , Carlo A. Pignedoli

By recasting the non-linear frequency-dependent $GW$ quasiparticle equation into a linear eigenvalue problem, we explain the appearance of multiple solutions and unphysical discontinuities in various physical quantities computed within the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-16 Enzo Monino , Pierre-François Loos

We provide an in-depth examination of the $GW$ approximation of Green's function many-body perturbation theory by detailing both its theoretical and practical aspects in the realm of quantum chemistry. First, the quasiparticle context is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Antoine Marie , Abdallah Ammar , Pierre-François Loos

The GW approximation is widely used for reliable and accurate modeling of single-particle excitations. It also serves as a starting point for many theoretical methods, such as its use in the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) and dynamical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Weiwei Gao , Zhao Tang , Jijun Zhao , James R. Chelikowsky

We use an all-electron implementation of the GW approximation to analyze several possible sources of error in the theory and its implementation. Among these are convergence in the polarization and Green's functions, the dependence of QP…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 M. van Schilfgaarde , T. Kotani , S. Faleev

The GW approximation for the electronic self-energy is an important tool for the quantitative prediction of excited states in solids, but its mathematical exploration is hampered by the fact that it must, in general, be evaluated…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-02-27 Arno Schindlmayr

Using many-body perturbation theory within the $G_0W_0$ approximation, we explore routes for computing the ionization potential (IP), electron affinity (EA), and fundamental gap of three gas-phase molecules -- benzene, thiophene, and (1,4)…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-10 Sahar Sharifzadeh , Isaac Tamblyn , Peter Doak , Pierre T. Darancet , Jeffrey B. Neaton

We present a tight-binding based GW approach for the calculation of quasiparticle energy levels in confined systems such as molecules. Key quantities in the GW formalism like the microscopic dielectric function or the screened Coulomb…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 T. A. Niehaus , M. Rohlfing , F. Della Sala , A. Di Carlo , Th. Frauenheim

We present a formulation of relativistic self-consistent $GW$ for solids based on the exact two-component formalism with one-electron approximation (X2C1e) and non-relativistic Coulomb interactions. Our theory allows us to study scalar…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-31 Chia-Nan Yeh , Avijit Shee , Qiming Sun , Emanuel Gull , Dominika Zgid

We calculate groundstate total energies and single-particle excitation energies of seven pi conjugated molecules described with the semi-empirical Pariser-Parr-Pople (PPP) model using self-consistent many-body perturbation theory at the GW…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-22 K. Kaasbjerg , K. S. Thygesen