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We present quasiparticle (QP) energies from fully self-consistent $GW$ (sc$GW$) calculations for a set of prototypical semiconductors and insulators within the framework of the projector-augmented wave methodology. To obtain converged…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-31 Manuel Grumet , Peitao Liu , Merzuk Kaltak , Jiří Klimeš , Georg Kresse

Machine learning applications in the chemical sciences, especially when based on neural networks, critically depend on the availability of large quantities of high quality data. As they provide excellent accuracy for both charged and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Dario Baum , Arno Förster , Lucas Visscher

We present a comparison of various approximations to self-consistency in the GW method, including the one-shot G0W0 method, different quasiparticle self-consistency schemes, and the fully self-consistent GW (scGW) approach. To ensure an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-17 Gaurav Harsha , Vibin Abraham , Ming Wen , Dominika Zgid

On the basis of first-principles GW calculations, we study the quasiparticle properties of the guanine, adenine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil DNA and RNA nucleobases. Beyond standard G0W0 calculations, starting from Kohn-Sham eigenstates…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Carina Faber , Claudio Attaccalite , Valerio Olevano , Erich Runge , Xavier Blase

We study within the many-body Green's function GW and Bethe-Salpeter formalisms the excitation energies of a paradigmatic model dipeptide, focusing on the four lowest-lying local and charge-transfer excitations. Our GW calculations are…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 Carina Faber , Paul Boulanger , Ivan Duchemin , Claudio Attaccalite , Xavier Blase

Photoelectron spectra of early $3d-$transition metal dioxide anions, ScO$_{2}^-$, TiO$_{2}^-$, VO$_{2}^-$, CrO$_{2}^-$, MnO$_{2}^-$, are calculated using semilocal and hybrid density functional theory (DFT) and many-body perturbation theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-17 Meisam Rezaei , Serdar Öğüt

Using the simple (symmetric) Hubbard dimer, we analyze some important features of the $GW$ approximation. We show that the problem of the existence of multiple quasiparticle solutions in the (perturbative) one-shot $GW$ method and its…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Stefano Di Sabatino , Pierre-François Loos , Pina Romaniello

This paper analyses the GW method for finite electronic systems. In a first step, we provide a mathematical framework for the usual one-body operators that appear naturally in many-body perturbation theory. We then discuss the GW equations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Eric Cancès , David Gontier , Gabriel Stoltz

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,…

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

We have developed a new type of self-consistent scheme within the $GW$ approximation, which we call quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ (QS$GW$). We have shown that QS$GW$ rather well describes energy bands for a wide-range of materials,…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-10-05 Takao Kotani , Mark van Schilfgaarde , Sergey V. Faleev

A few approximate schemes to solve the Hedin equations self-consistently introduced in (Phys. Rev. B 94, 155101 (2016)) are explored and tested for the 3D electron gas at metallic densities. We calculate one electron spectra, dielectric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-12 A. L. Kutepov , G. Kotliar

An efficient implementation of the self-consistent GW method in the FlapwMBPT code (https://www.bnl.gov/cmpmsd/flapwmbpt/) is presented. It features the evaluation of polarizability and self-energy which scales linearly with respect to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-05 Andrey L. Kutepov

Based on an exact functional form derived for the three-point vertex function $\Gamma$, we propose a self-consistent calculation scheme for the electron self-energy with $\Gamma$ always satisfying the Ward identity. This scheme is basically…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-11 Soh Ishii , Hideaki Maebashi , Yasutami Takada

$GW$ is an accurate method for computing electron addition and removal energies of molecules and solids. In a conventional $GW$ implementation, however, its computational cost is $O(N^4)$ in the system size $N$, which prohibits its…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Jan Wilhelm , Patrick Seewald , Dorothea Golze

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 Yeongsu Cho , Sylvia J. Bintrim , Timothy C. Berkelbach

The $GW$-Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) method is promising for calculating the low-lying excited states of molecular systems. So far, it has only been applied to rather small molecules, and in the commonly implemented diagonal…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Arno Förster , Lucas Visscher

We introduce a method that allows for the calculation of quasi-particle spectra in the GW approximation, yet avoiding any explicit reference to empty one-electron states. This is achieved by expressing the irreducible polarizability…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Umari , G. Stenuit , S. Baroni

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

Density functional theory (DFT) is an exact alternative formulation of quantum mechanics, in which it is possible to calculate the total energy, the spin and the charge density of many-electron systems in the ground state. In practice, it…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-03-25 Uri Argaman , Guy Makov , Eli Kraisler