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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

The GW approximation is a cornerstone of many-body perturbation theory for computing single-particle excitations, yet it fundamentally breaks down in strongly correlated systems where the single-reference picture fails. To overcome this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Yuqi Wang , Wei-Hai Fang , Zhendong Li

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

Functionals of the meta-generalized gradient approximation (MGGA) are nowadays widely used in chemistry and solid-state physics for the simulation of electronic systems like molecules, solids, or surfaces. Due to their dependency on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-31 Jan Doumont , Fabien Tran , Peter Blaha

$GW$ 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

A new cumulant-based $GW$ approximation for the retarded one-particle Green's function is proposed, motivated by an exact relation between the improper Dyson self-energy and the cumulant generating function. Qualitative aspects of this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-21 Matthew Z. Mayers , Mark S. Hybertsen , David R. Reichman

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

Over the years, Hedin's $GW$ self-energy has been proven to be a rather accurate and simple approximation to evaluate electronic quasiparticle energies in solids and in molecules. Attempts to improve over the simple $GW$ approximation, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Fabien Bruneval , Arno Förster

In the Projector Augmented Wave (PAW) method, a local potential, basis functions, and projector functions form an All-Electron (AE) basis for valence wave functions in the application of Density Functional Theory (DFT). The construction of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-08-05 R. J. Snow , A. F. Wright , C. Y. Fong

We apply a recently developed quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ method (QSGW) to Gd, Er, EuN, GdN, ErAs, YbN and GdAs. We show that QSGW combines advantages separately found in conventional $GW$ and LDA+$U$ theory, in a simple and fully…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-11-10 Athanasios N. Chantis , Mark van Schilfgaarde , Takao Kotani

We present an efficient implementation of the PBE0 hybrid functional within the full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave (FLAPW) method. The Hartree-Fock exchange term, which is a central ingredient of hybrid functionals, gives rise…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-28 Markus Betzinger , Christoph Friedrich , Stefan Blügel

The GW approximation represents the state-of-the-art ab-initio method for computing excited-state properties. Its execution requires control over a larger number of (often interdependent) parameters, and therefore its application in…

The GW method, which can describe accurately electronic excitations, is one of the most widely used ab initio electronic structure technique and allows the physics of both molecular and condensed phase materials to be studied. However, the…

We present an implementation of the density-functional theory DFT$+U$$+V$ formalism within the all-electron full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave (FLAPW) method as implemented in the FLEUR code. The DFT$+U$$+V$ formalism extends…

The many-body perturbation theory within the $GW$ approximation is a widely used method for describing the electronic band structures in real materials. Its application to large-scale systems is, however, impeded by its high computational…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 Min-Ye Zhang , Peize Lin , Rong Shi , Xinguo Ren

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

We calculate single-particle excitation energies for a series of 33 molecules using fully selfconsistent GW, one-shot G$_0$W$_0$, Hartree-Fock (HF), and hybrid density functional theory (DFT). All calculations are performed within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 C. Rostgaard , K. W. Jacobsen , K. S. Thygesen

We present a new kind self-consistent GW approximation (scGW) based on the all-electron, full-potential LMTO method. By iterating the eigenfunctions of the GW Hamiltonian, self-consistency in both the charge density and the quasiparticle…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Sergey V. Faleev , Mark van Schilfgaarde , Takao Kotani

In principle, the Luttinger-Ward Green's function formalism allows one to compute simultaneously the total energy and the quasiparticle band structure of a many-body electronic system from first principles. We present approximate and exact…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

We present an implementation of the $GW$ space-time approach that allows cubic-scaling all-electron calculations with standard Gaussian basis sets without exploiting any localization nor sparsity considerations. The independent-electron…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-29 Ivan Duchemin , Xavier Blase