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An efficient all-electron G$^0$W$^0$ method and a quasiparticle selfconsistent GW (QSGW) method for molecules are proposed in the molecular orbital space with the full random phase approximation. The convergence with basis set is examined.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 San-Huang Ke

We used our previously implemented GW approximation (GWA) based on the all-electron full-potential projector augmented wave (PAW) method to study the optical properties of small, medium and large-band-gap semiconductors: Si, GaAs, AlAs,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 B. Arnaud , M. Alouani

In order to increase the accuracy of the linearized augmented plane wave method (LAPW) we present a new approach where the plane wave basis function is augmented by two different atomic radial components constructed at two different…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-10 A. V. Nikolaev , D. Lamoen , B. Partoens

The $GW$ approximation is a widely used method for computing electron addition and removal energies of molecules and solids. The computational effort of conventional $GW$ algorithms increases as $O(N^4)$ with the system size $N$, hindering…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Mia Schambeck , Dorothea Golze , Jan Wilhelm

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-10 Brian Cunningham , Myrta Gruening , Dimitar Pashov , Mark van Schilfgaarde

We report an all-electron, atomic orbital (AO) based, two-component (2C) implementation of the $GW$ approximation (GWA) for closed-shell molecules. Our algorithm is based on the space-time formulation of the GWA and uses analytical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Arno Förster , Erik van Lenthe , Edoardo Spadetto , Lucas Visscher

We analyze in detail the error that arises from the linearization in linearized augmented-plane-wave (LAPW) basis functions around predetermined energies $E_l$ and show that it can lead to undesirable dependences of the calculated results…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-19 Gregor Michalicek , Markus Betzinger , Christoph Friedrich , Stefan Blügel

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 is a well-established method for calculating ionization potentials and electron affinities in solids and molecules. For numerous years, obtaining self-consistent $GW$ total energies in solids has been a challenging…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Adam Hassan Denawi , Fabien Bruneval , Marc Torrent , Mauricio Rodríguez-Mayorga

We present an all-electron, periodic {\GnWn} implementation within the numerical atomic orbital (NAO) basis framework. A localized variant of the resolution-of-the-identity (RI) approximation is employed to significantly reduce the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-03 Xinguo Ren , Florian Merz , Hong Jiang , Yi Yao , Markus Rampp , Hermann Lederer , Volker Blum , Matthias Scheffler

A novel self-consistent implementation of Hedin's GW perturbation theory is introduced. This finite-temperature method uses Hartree-Fock wave functions to represent Green's function. GW equations are solved with full potential linear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrey Kutepov , Sergey Yu. Savrasov , Gabriel Kotliar

We report an all-electron implementation of the quasiparticle self-consistent GW (QSGW) method for molecular and periodic systems within the framework of numerical atomic orbitals (NAOs), as implemented in the LibRPA software package. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 Bohan Jia , Min-Ye Zhang , Ziqing Guan , Huanjing Gong , Xinguo Ren

This paper describes an all-electron implementation of the self-consistent GW (sc-GW) approach -- i.e. based on the solution of the Dyson equation -- in an all-electron numeric atom-centered orbital (NAO) basis set. We cast Hedin's…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-12 Fabio Caruso , Patrick Rinke , Xinguo Ren , Angel Rubio , Matthias Scheffler

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

We present a detailed account of the GW space-time method. The method increases the size of systems whose electronic structure can be studied with a computational implementation of Hedin's GW approximation. At the heart of the method is a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. M. Rieger , L. Steinbeck , I. D. White , H. N. Rojas , R. W. Godby

The dielectric response function and its inverse are crucial physical quantities in materials science. We propose an accurate and efficient strategy to invert the dielectric function matrix. The GW approximation, a powerful approach to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Zhengbang Zhou , Huanhuan Ma , Wentiao Wu , Weiguo Gao , Jinlong Yang , Meiyue Shao , Wei Hu

We have developed a multi-GPU version of the quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ (QSGW), a cutting-edge method for describing electronic excitations in a first-principles approach. While the QSGW calculation algorithm is inherently…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Masao Obata , Takao Kotani , Tatsuki Oda

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 make a gradient correction to a new local density approximation form of positron-electron correlation. Then the positron lifetimes and affinities are probed by using these two approximation forms based on three electronic-structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-25 Wen-Shuai Zhang , Bing-Chuan Gu , Xiao-Xi Han , Jian-Dang Liu , Bang-Jiao Ye

Fully self-consistent GW (sc-GW) methods are now available to evaluate quasiparticle and spectral properties of various molecular and bulk systems. However, such techniques based on the full matrix of G and W are computationally demanding.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-17 Yashpal Singh , Lin-Wang Wang