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A stochastic cumulant GW method is presented, allowing us to map the evolution of photoemission spectra, quasiparticle energies, lifetimes and emergence of collective excitations from molecules to bulk-like systems with up to thousands of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Vojtech Vlcek , Eran Rabani , Daniel Neuhauser

The quasiparticle band structures of 3d transition metals, ferromagnetic Fe, Ni and paramagnetic Cu, are calculated by the GW approximation. The width of occupied 3d valence band, which is overestimated in the LSDA, is in good agreement…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Atsushi Yamasaki , Takeo Fujiwara

A quasiparticle band structure of a single layer 2H-NbSe$_2$ is reported by using first-principles $GW$ calculation. We show that a self-energy correction increases the width of a partially occupied band and alters its Fermi surface shape…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Sejoong Kim , Young-Woo Son

Excited-state calculations, notably for quasiparticle band structures, are nowadays routinely performed within the GW approximation for the electronic self-energy. Nevertheless, certain numerical approximations and simplifications are still…

The GW method is a many-body approach capable of providing quasiparticle bands for realistic systems spanning physics, chemistry, and materials science. Despite its power, GW is not routinely applied to large complex materials due to its…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-29 Minjung Kim , Glenn J. Martyna , Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

In a previous work it was shown that the inclusion of exact exchange is essential for a first principles description of both the electronic- and the vibrational properties of TiSe$_2$, M. Hellgren et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176401…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-03 Maria Hellgren , Lucas Baguet , Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri , Ludger Wirtz

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

Quasiparticle spectra of potentially half-metallic Co2MnSi and Co2FeSi Heusler compounds have been calculated within the one-shot GW approximation in an all-electron framework without adjustable parameters. For Co2FeSi the many-body…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-04 Markus Meinert , Christoph Friedrich , Günter Reiss , Stefan Blügel

Atomic effective pseudopotentials enable atomistic calculations at the level of accuracy of density functional theory for semiconductor nanostructures with up to fifty thousand atoms. Since they are directly derived from ab-initio…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-14 Surender Kumar , Hanh Bui , Gabriel Bester

Electronic level alignment at the interface between an adsorbed molecular layer and a semiconducting substrate determines the activity and efficiency of many photocatalytic materials. Standard density functional theory (DFT) based methods…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-28 Annapaoala Migani , Duncan J. Mowbray , Jin Zhao , Hrvoje Petek , Angel Rubio

Quasiparticle calculations are performed to investigate the electronic band structures of various polymorphs of Hf and Zr oxides. The corrections with respect to density-functional-theory results are found to depend only weakly on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Myrta Grüning , Riad Shaltaf , Gian-Marco Rignanese

$\mathtt{StochasticGW}$ is a code for computing accurate Quasi-Particle (QP) energies of molecules and material systems in the GW approximation. $\mathtt{StochasticGW}$ utilizes the stochastic Resolution of the Identity (sROI) technique to…

We propose a model intended to qualitatively capture the electron-electron interaction physics of two-dimensional electron gases formed near transition-metal oxide heterojunctions containing $t_{2g}$ electrons with a density much smaller…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-27 John R. Tolsma , Alessandro Principi , Reza Asgari , Marco Polini , Allan H. MacDonald

A universal set of third--nearest neighbour tight--binding (TB) parameters is presented for calculation of the quasiparticle (QP) dispersion of $N$ stacked $sp^2$ graphene layers ($N=1... \infty$) with $AB$ stacking sequence. The QP bands…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Grüneis , C. Attaccalite , L. Wirtz , H. Shiozawa R. Saito , T. Pichler , A. Rubio

The $GW$ method is widely used for calculating the electronic band structure of materials. The high computational cost of $GW$ algorithms prohibits their application to many systems of interest. We present a periodic, low-scaling and highly…

Next-generation gravitational wave (GW) experiments will explore higher frequency ranges, where GW wavelengths approach the size of the detector itself. In this regime, GWs may be detected not just through the well-known mechanical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Lars Fischer , Tom Krokotsch , Gudrid Moortgat-Pick

We present first-principles many-body perturbation theory calculations of the quasiparticle electronic structure and of the optical response of HfO$_2$ polymorphs. We use the $GW$ approximation including core electrons by the projector…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-14 Benoît Sklénard , Alberto Dragoni , François Triozon , Valerio Olevano

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

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

The LDA-1/2 method has proven to be a viable approach for calculating band gaps of semiconductors. To address its accuracy for finite systems, we apply LDA-1/2 to atoms and the molecules of the $GW100$ test set. The obtained energies of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-31 Ronaldo Rodrigues Pela , Andris Gulans , Claudia Draxl