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We present and compare several many-body methods as applied to two-dimensional quantum dots with circular symmetry. We calculate the approximate ground state energy using a harmonic oscillator basis optimized by Hartree-Fock (HF) theory and…
A framework for developing new approximate electronic structure methods is presented, in which the correlation energy of a many-electron system in the ground state is computed as in the single-reference second-order many-body perturbation…
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…
The correlation energy of the homogeneous electron gas is evaluated by solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) beyond the Tamm-Dancoff approximation for the electronic polarisation propagator. The BSE is expected to improve upon the…
Photo-emission spectroscopy directly probes individual electronic states, ranging from single excitations to high-energy satellites, which simultaneously represent multiple quasiparticles (QPs) and encode information about electronic…
Hedin's $GW$ approximation to the electronic self-energy has been impressively successful to calculate quasiparticle energies, such as ionization potentials, electron affinities, or electronic band structures. The success of this fairly…
We have performed self-consistent calculations for first and second row atoms using a variant of density-functional theory, the optimized effective potential method, with an approximation due to Krieger, Li and Iafrate and a…
We introduce an energy functional for ground-state electronic structure calculations. Its variables are the natural spin-orbitals of singlet many-body wave functions and their joint occupation probabilities deriving from controlled…
The calculation of quasi-particle spectra based on the GW approximation is extended to systems of hundreds of atoms, thus expanding the size range of current approaches by more than one order of magnitude. This is achieved through an…
Inspired by Grimme's simplified Tamm-Dancoff density functional theory approach [S. Grimme, J. Chem. Phys. \textbf{138}, 244104 (2013)], we describe a simplified approach to excited state calculations within the GW approximation to the…
Quasiparticle (QP) wave functions, also known as Dyson orbitals, extend the concept of single-particle states to interacting electron systems. Here we employ many-body perturbation theory in the GW approximation to calculate the QP wave…
Variational, nonrelativisitic energies have been calculated for the ground state ($^3P_g$) and the lowest quintuplet state ($^5S_u$) of the carbon atom, with wavefunctions expressed in the basis of symmetry-projected, explicitly correlated…
A microscopic approach is developed to determine the excitation energetics of highly correlated quasi-particles in optically excited semiconductors based entirely on a pair-correlation function input. For this purpose, the Wannier equation…
We report the successful adaptation of the quasi-boson approximation, a technique traditionally employed in nuclear physics, to the analysis of the two-dimensional electron gas. We show that the correlation energy estimated from this…
We describe an all-electron $G_0W_0$ implementation for periodic systems with $k$-point sampling implemented in a crystalline Gaussian basis. Our full-frequency $G_0W_0$ method relies on efficient Gaussian density fitting integrals and…
We report a successful combination of magnetic force linear response theory with quasiparticle self-consistent GW method. The self-consistently determined wavefunctions and eigenvalues can just be used for the conventional magnetic force…
We present a density matrix approach for computing global solutions of Hartree-Fock theory, based on semidefinite programming (SDP), that gives upper and lower bounds on the Hartree-Fock energy of quantum systems. Equality of the upper- and…
The $GW$ approach of many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) has become a common tool for calculating the electronic structure of materials. However, with increasing number of published results, discrepancies between the values obtained by…
We show how to construct an effective Hamiltonian whose dimension scales linearly with system size, and whose eigenvalues systematically approximate the excitation energies of GW theory. This is achieved by rigorously expanding the…
The total energy and electron addition and removal spectra can in principle be obtained exactly from the one-body Green's function. In practice, the Green's function is obtained from an approximate self-energy. In the framework of many-body…