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Transition metal (TM) oxides play an increasingly important role in technology today including applications such as catalysis, solar energy harvesting, and energy storage. In many of these applications, the details of their electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-30 Dong-Hwa Seo , Alexander Urban , Gerbrand Ceder

We use hybrid functionals and restricted self-consistent GW, state-of-the-art theoretical approaches for quasiparticle band structures, to study the electronic states of delafossite Cu(Al,In)O$_2$, the first p-type and bipolar transparent…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-30 Julien Vidal , Fabio Trani , Fabien Bruneval , Miguel A. L. Marques , Silvana Botti

Recent metamaterial (MM) research faces several problems when using metal-based plasmonic components as building blocks for MMs. The use of conventional metals for MMs is limited by several factors: metals such as gold and silver have high…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-08 Gururaj V. Naik , Alexandra Boltasseva

We use many-body perturbation theory, the state-of-the-art method for band gap calculations, to compute the band offsets at the Si/SiO$_2$ interface. We examine the adequacy of the usual approximations in this context. We show that (i) the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-06 R. Shaltaf , G. -M. Rignanese , X. Gonze , Feliciano Giustino , Alfredo Pasquarello

Transition-metal-based Heusler semiconductors are promising materials for a variety of applications ranging from spintronics to thermoelectricity. Employing the $GW$ approximation within the framework of the FLAPW method, we study the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-01 M. Tas , E. Sasioglu , I. Galanakis , C. Friedrich , S. Blugel

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

We benchmark many-body perturbation theory against density functional theory (DFT) for the band gaps of solids. We systematically compare four $GW$ variants $-$ $G_{0}W_{0}$ using the Godby-Needs plasmon-pole approximation…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-19 Max Großmann , Marc Thieme , Malte Grunert , Erich Runge

Ab initio techniques are used to calculate the effective work function (Weff) of a TiN/HfO2/SiO2/Si stack representing a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor gate taking into account first order many body effects. The required band…

Employing the $G_0W_0$ approximation of Hedin's $GW$ approach one can obtain quasi-particle energies of extended systems and molecules with good accuracy. However, for many materials, semi-local exchange-correlation functionals are…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-21 Ronaldo Rodrigues Pela , Ute Werner , Dmitrii Nabok , Claudia Draxl

In a recent Letter, Zhao et al. [1] reported the origin of quasi-one-dimensional metal-insulator (MI) transitions in compound semiconductor surfaces. Based on a density-functional theory (DFT) calculation within the generalized gradient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Sun-Woo Kim , Yoon-Gu Kang , Hyun-Jung Kim , Jun-Hyung Cho

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations of defect levels in semiconductors based on approximate functionals are subject to considerable uncertainties, in particular due to inaccurate band gap energies. Testing previous correction…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Stephan Lany , Alex Zunger

We assess the accuracy and computational efficiency of the recently developed meta-generalized gradient approximation (metaGGA) functional, the restored regularized strongly constrained and appropriately normed (r$^2$SCAN), in transition…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-21 S. Swathilakshmi , Reshma Devi , Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam

The optical response functions and band structures of LiCoO$_2$ are studied at different levels of approximation, from density functional theory (DFT) in the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) to quasiparticle self-consistent QS$GW$…

Theoretical studies of semiconductors and band insulators are usually based on variants of the $GW$ method without full self-consistency, like single-shot $G^0W^0$ or quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$. Fully self-consistent $GW$ provides a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-28 Viktor Christiansson , Francesco Petocchi , Philipp Werner

The properties of metallic systems with important and structured excitations at low energies, such as Cu, are challenging to describe with simple models like the plasmon pole approximation (PPA), and more accurate and sometimes prohibitive…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-26 Dario A. Leon , Andrea Ferretti , Daniele Varsano , Elisa Molinari , Claudia Cardoso

Using the recently developed version of the GW method employing the one-site approximation and self-consistent quasiparticle basis set we calculated the electronic structure of 3d and 4d transition metals at experimental atomic volumes. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-08-16 K. D. Belashchenko , V. P. Antropov , N. E. Zein

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 $GW$ 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…

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

We provide a comprehensive analysis of the prominent tight-binding (TB) models for transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) available in the literature. We inspect the construction of these TB models, discuss their parameterization used and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-25 Bert Jorissen , Lucian Covaci , Bart Partoens