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Calculating the quasiparticle (QP) band structure of two-dimensional (2D) materials within the GW self-energy approximation has proven to be a rather demanding computational task. The main reason is the strong $\mathbf{q}$-dependence of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-12 Filip A. Rasmussen , Per S. Schmidt , Kirsten T. Winther , Kristian S. Thygesen

The GW approximation for the electronic self-energy is an important tool for the quantitative prediction of excited states in solids, but its mathematical exploration is hampered by the fact that it must, in general, be evaluated…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-02-27 Arno Schindlmayr

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…

We present a quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ (QSGW) implementation for periodic systems based on crystalline Gaussian basis sets. Our QSGW approach is based on a full-frequency analytic continuation GW scheme with Brillouin zone sampling…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Jincheng Lei , Tianyu Zhu

Accurate predictions of charge excitation energies of molecules in the disordered condensed phase are central to the chemical reactivity, stability, and optoelectronic properties of molecules and critically depend on the specific…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Guorong Weng , Vojtech Vlcek

We describe a finite-field approach to compute density response functions, which allows for efficient $G_0W_0$ and $G_0W_0\Gamma_0$ calculations beyond the random phase approximation. The method is easily applicable to density functional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 He Ma , Marco Govoni , Francois Gygi , Giulia Galli

We present ab initio quasiparticle self-energy calculations in crystalline GaAs for cases of intense electronic excitation (~ 10% of valence electrons excited into conduction band), relevant for high-intensity ultra-short pulsed laser…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Catalin D. Spataru , Lorin X. Benedict , Steven G. Louie

Obtaining a thermodynamically accurate phase diagram through numerical calculations is a computationally expensive problem that is crucially important to understanding the complex phenomena of solid state physics, such as superconductivity.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Michał Januszewski , Andrzej Ptok , Dawid Crivelli , Bartłomiej Gardas

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

The GW approximation within many-body perturbation theory is the state of the art for computing quasiparticle energies in solids. Typically, Kohn-Sham (KS) eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, obtained from a Density Functional Theory (DFT)…

Quasiparticle (QP) excitations are extremely important for understanding and predicting charge transfer and transport in molecules, nanostructures and extended systems. Since density functional theory (DFT) within the Kohn-Sham (KS)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Vojtech Vlcek , Eran Rabani , Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer

Precise and accurate predictions of the two-dimensional (2D) material's fundamental gap are crucial for next-generation flexible electronic and photonic devices. We, therefore, evaluated the predictivity of the GW approach in its several…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-25 Miroslav Kolos , František Karlický

Two self-consistent schemes involving Hedin's $GW$ approximation are studied for a set of sixteen different atoms and small molecules. We compare results from the fully self-consistent $GW$ approximation (SC$GW$) and the quasi-particle…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 Peter Koval , Dietrich Foerster , Daniel Sánchez-Portal

The calculation of quasi-particle spectra based on the GW approximation is extended to systems of hundreds of atoms, thus expanding the size range of current approaches by more than one order of magnitude. This is achieved through an…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-11-11 P. Umari , Geoffrey Stenuit , Stefano Baroni

Fully self-consistent GW (sc-GW) methods are now available to evaluate quasiparticle and spectral properties of various molecular and bulk systems. However, such techniques based on the full matrix of G and W are computationally demanding.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-17 Yashpal Singh , Lin-Wang Wang

The $GW$ approach of many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) has become a common tool for calculating the electronic structure of materials. However, with increasing number of published results, discrepancies between the values obtained by…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-03 Dmitrii Nabok , Andris Gulans , Claudia Draxl

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

An efficient method for calculating the electronic structure in large systems with a fully converged BZ sampling is presented. The method is based on a k.p-like approximation developed in the framework of the density functional perturbation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Marcella Iannuzzi , Michele Parrinello

We have recently implemented a new version of the quasiparticle self-consistent GW (QSGW) method in the ecalj package released at http://github.com/tkotani/ecalj. Since the new version of the ecalj is numerically stable and accurate…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-20 Daiki Deguchi , Kazunori Sato , Hiori Kino , Takao Kotani

We have developed a new type of self-consistent scheme within the $GW$ approximation, which we call quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ (QS$GW$). We have shown that QS$GW$ rather well describes energy bands for a wide-range of materials,…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-10-05 Takao Kotani , Mark van Schilfgaarde , Sergey V. Faleev