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We use the random phase approximation (RPA) method with the singles correlation energy contributions to calculate lattice energies of ten molecular solids. While RPA gives too weak binding, underestimating the reference data by $13.7$\% on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Jiří Klimeš

A fast method is developed for calculating the Random-Phase-Approximation (RPA) correlation energy for density functional theory. The correlation energy is given by a trace over a projected RPA response matrix and the trace is taken by a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 Daniel Neuhauser , Eran Rabani , Roi Baer

The adiabatic connection fluctuation-dissipation theorem with the random phase approximation (RPA) has recently been applied with success to obtain correlation energies of a variety of chemical and solid state systems. The main merit of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-20 Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

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 efficient implementation of the random phase approximation (RPA) for molecular systems within the domain-based local pair natural orbital (DLPNO) framework. With optimized parameters, DLPNO-RPA achieves approximately 99.9%…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Yu Hsuan Liang , Xing Zhang , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan , Timothy C. Berkelbach , Hong-Zhou Ye

We discuss that in the random phase approximation (RPA) the first derivative of the energy with respect to the Green's function is the self-energy in the GW approximation. This relationship allows us to derive compact equations for the RPA…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 Benjamin Ramberger , Tobias Schäfer , Georg Kresse

The random phase approximation (RPA) as formulated as an orbital-dependent, fifth-rung functional within the density functional theory (DFT) framework offers a promising approach for calculating the ground-state energies and the derived…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Rong Shi , Peize Lin , Min-Ye Zhang , Lixin He , Xinguo Ren

The self-consistent random phase approximation (RPA) based on a correlated realistic nucleon-nucleon interaction is used to evaluate correlation energies in closed-shell nuclei beyond the Hartree-Fock level. The relevance of contributions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Barbieri , N. Paar , R. Roth , P. Papakonstantinou

We show how to construct an effective Hamiltonian whose dimension scales linearly with system size, and whose eigenvalues systematically approximate the excitation energies of GW theory. This is achieved by rigorously expanding the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Charles J. C. Scott , Oliver J. Backhouse , George H. Booth

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

We use an all-electron implementation of the GW approximation to analyze several possible sources of error in the theory and its implementation. Among these are convergence in the polarization and Green's functions, the dependence of QP…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 M. van Schilfgaarde , T. Kotani , S. Faleev

In this work we explore the performance of approximations to electron correlation in reduced density-matrix functional theory (RDMFT) and of approximations to the observables calculated within this theory. Our analysis focuses on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-26 Stefano Di Sabatino , Jan A. Berger , Lucia Reining , Pina Romaniello

We introduce a systematic hierarchy of one-body Green's function methods derived from the $GW$ approximation, constructed by progressively reducing the dynamical content of the self-energy. Starting from the fully dynamical Dyson…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Pierre-François Loos , Johannes Tölle

The accurate computation of non-linear optical properties (NLOPs) in large polymers requires accounting for electronic correlation effects with a reasonable computational cost. The Random Phase Approximation (RPA) used in the adiabatic…

The self-screening error in the random-phase approximation (RPA) and the $GW$ approximation (GWA) is a well-known issue and has received attention in recent years with several methods for a correction being proposed. We here apply two of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-15 Viktor Christiansson , Ferdi Aryasetiawan

We report an improved implementation for evaluating the analytical gradients of the random phase approximation (RPA) electron-correlation energy based on atomic orbitals and the localized resolution of identity scheme. The more efficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-17 Muhammad N. Tahir , Honghui Shang , Jia Li , Xinguo Ren

The Random Phase Approximation (RPA) for total energies has previously been shown to provide a qualitatively correct description of static correlation in molecular systems, where density functional theory (DFT) with local functionals are…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-27 Thomas Olsen

In wavefunction-based $\textit{ab-initio}$ quantum mechanical calculations, achieving absolute convergence with respect to the one-electron basis set is a long-standing challenge. In this work, using the random phase approximation (RPA)…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-17 Hao Peng , Xinguo Ren

The random-phase approximation to the ground state correlation energy (RPA) in combination with exact exchange (EX) has brought Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory one step closer towards a universal, "general purpose first principles…

The random-phase approximation (RPA) as an approach for computing the electronic correlation energy is reviewed. After a brief account of its basic concept and historical development, the paper is devoted to the theoretical formulations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-26 Xinguo Ren , Patrick Rinke , Christian Joas , Matthias Scheffler