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Recently, the $GW$ approach has emerged as a valuable tool for computing deep core-level binding energies as measured in X-ray photoemission spectroscopy. However, $GW$ fails to accurately predict shake-up satellite features, which arise…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Jannis Kockläuner , Dorothea Golze

Gromov--Wasserstein (GW) distances compare graphs, shapes, and point clouds through internal distances, without requiring a common coordinate system. This invariance is powerful, but discrete GW is a nonconvex quadratic optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ao Xu , Tieru Wu

Within the framework of many-body perturbation theory based on Green's functions, the $GW$ approximation has emerged as a pivotal method for computing quasiparticle energies and excitation spectra. However, its high computational cost and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Yueyang Zhang , Wei Wu , Peifeng Su

This chapter concerns with the recent development of a new DFT methodology for accurate, reliable prediction of many-electron systems. Background, need for such a scheme, major difficulties encountered, as well as their potential remedies…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Amlan K. Roy

Full-potential electronic structure calculations for periodic systems retain the Coulomb singularity at the nuclei, which induces cusp behavior of the orbitals near the nuclei while leaving the interstitial region smooth. This multiscale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Baowei Lai , Xucheng Meng , Xiaoxu Li

We present a nontrivial model system of interacting electrons that can be solved analytically in the GW approximation. We obtain the particle number from the GW Green's function strictly analytically, and prove that there is a genuine…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-03 Arno Schindlmayr

We report an exhaustive study of the performance of different variants of Green function methods for the spherium model in which two electrons are confined to the surface of a sphere and interact via a genuine long-range Coulomb operator.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Pierre-François Loos , Pina Romaniello , J. A. Berger

We describe a version of an algorithm for evolving self-gravitating collections of particles that should be nearly ideal for parallel architectures. Our method is derived from the ``self-consistent field'' (SCF) approach suggested…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Lars Hernquist , Steinn Sigurdsson , Greg L. Bryan

The good performance of the GW approximation for band-structure calculations in solids was long taken as a sign that the sum of self-energy diagrams is converged and that all omitted terms are small. However, with modern computational…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Arno Schindlmayr

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

The SternheimerGW software uses time-dependent density-functional perturbation theory to evaluate GW quasiparticle band structures and spectral functions for solids. Both the Green's function G and the screened Coulomb interaction W are…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-11 Martin Schlipf , Henry Lambert , Nourdine Zibouche , Feliciano Giustino

Using many-body perturbation theory within the $G_0W_0$ approximation, we explore routes for computing the ionization potential (IP), electron affinity (EA), and fundamental gap of three gas-phase molecules -- benzene, thiophene, and (1,4)…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-10 Sahar Sharifzadeh , Isaac Tamblyn , Peter Doak , Pierre T. Darancet , Jeffrey B. Neaton

A GW-BSE approximation scheme is assessed by applying it to a model of asymmetric two-dimensional (2D) interacting electron system. The model is assumed to have a parabolic band characterized by two independent effective mass parameters. A…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Xiaoguang Wu

The sine(sinh)-Gordon hierarchy of integrable Hamiltonian systems is described in detail, and all dynamic variables are expressed in terms of the $\wp$-functions that uniformize the associated spectral curve. Quasi-periodic solutions to the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2026-04-28 Julia Bernatska

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

The \emph{GW} approximation takes into account electrostatic self-interaction contained in the Hartree potential through the exchange potential. However, it has been known for a long time that the approximation contains self-screening error…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Aryasetiawan , R. Sakuma , K. Karlsson

Single-Hessian Gaussian wavepacket dynamics (GWD) significantly reduces the computational burden of Heller's local harmonic GWD, while maintaining comparable accuracy in approximating vibronic spectra. Here, we provide a new, symplectic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Davide Barbiero , Jiří J. L. Vaníček

We present theoretical calculations for the spectral functions and single-particle densities of states of the two-dimensional electron gas in semiconductor quantum wells at different electron densities using the GW+cumulant method. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Johannes Lischner , Derek Vigil-Fowler , Steven G. Louie

Similar to other electron correlation methods, many-body perturbation theory methods based on Green functions, such as the so-called $GW$ approximation, suffer from the usual slow convergence of energetic properties with respect to the size…

The $GW$ approximation has become a method of choice for predicting quasiparticle properties in solids and large molecular systems, owing to its favorable accuracy-cost balance. However, its accuracy is the result of a fortuitous…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Antoine Marie , Pierre-François Loos