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Machine learning applications in the chemical sciences, especially when based on neural networks, critically depend on the availability of large quantities of high quality data. As they provide excellent accuracy for both charged and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Dario Baum , Arno Förster , Lucas Visscher

We apply the quasiparticle self-consistent GW method (QSGW) to slab models of ionic materials, LiF, KF, NaCl, MgO, and CaO, under electric field. Then we obtain the optical dielectric constants E(Slab) from the differences of the slopes of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-20 Hirofumi Sakakibara , Takao Kotani , Masao Obata , Tatsuki Oda

Based on an exact functional form derived for the three-point vertex function $\Gamma$, we propose a self-consistent calculation scheme for the electron self-energy with $\Gamma$ always satisfying the Ward identity. This scheme is basically…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-11 Soh Ishii , Hideaki Maebashi , Yasutami Takada

$GW$ is an accurate method for computing electron addition and removal energies of molecules and solids. In a conventional $GW$ implementation, however, its computational cost is $O(N^4)$ in the system size $N$, which prohibits its…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Jan Wilhelm , Patrick Seewald , Dorothea Golze

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 $GW$ approximation has been recently gaining popularity among the method for simulating molecular core-level X-ray photoemission spectra. Traditionally, $GW$ core-level binding energies have been computed using either the cc-pV$n$Z or…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Daniel Mejia-Rodriguez , Alexander Kunitsa , Edoardo Aprà , Niranjan Govind

The formulation of vertex corrections beyond the $GW$ approximation within the framework of perturbation theory is a subtle and challenging task, which accounts for the wide variety of schemes proposed over the years. Exact self-energies…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Fabien Bruneval , Arno Förster , Yaroslav Pavlyukh

Self consistent GW approach (scGW) has been applied to calculate the ground state properties (equilibrium Wigner-Seitz radius $S_{WZ}$ and bulk modulus $B$) of 3d transition metals Sc, Ti, V, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu. The approach systematically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-31 Andrey L. Kutepov

The GW approximation is widely used for reliable and accurate modeling of single-particle excitations. It also serves as a starting point for many theoretical methods, such as its use in the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) and dynamical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Weiwei Gao , Zhao Tang , Jijun Zhao , James R. Chelikowsky

We calculate complete basis set (CBS) limit extrapolated ionization potentials (IP) and electron affinities (EA) with Slater Type Basis sets for the molecules in the GW100 database. To this end, we present two new Slater Type orbital (STO)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Arno Förster , Lucas Visscher

We present a machine learning (ML) framework that predicts $G_0W_0$ quasiparticle energies across molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories with high accuracy and efficiency. Using only DFT-derived mean-field eigenvalues and exchange-correlation…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-06 Ragab. A. Abdelghany , Chih-En Hsu , Hung-Chung Hsueh , Yuan-Hong Tsai , Ming-Chiang Chung

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 expand on a recently introduced alternate framework for $GW$ simulation of charged excitations [Scott et. al., J. Chem. Phys., 158, 124102 (2023)], based around the conservation of directly computed spectral moments of the GW…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Oliver J. Backhouse , Marcus K. Allen , Charles C. J. Scott , George H. Booth

On the basis of the self-consistent calculation scheme for the electron self-energy with the use of the three-point vertex function always satisfying the Ward identity, we find that the obtained quasiparticle dispersion in the normal state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-12 Yasutami Takada

On the basis of first-principles GW calculations, we study the quasiparticle properties of the guanine, adenine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil DNA and RNA nucleobases. Beyond standard G0W0 calculations, starting from Kohn-Sham eigenstates…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Carina Faber , Claudio Attaccalite , Valerio Olevano , Erich Runge , Xavier Blase

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

We present and benchmark a self-energy approach for quasiparticle energy calculations that goes beyond Hedin's $GW$ approximation by adding the full second-order self-energy (FSOS-$W$) contribution. The FSOS-$W$ diagram involves two…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-18 Yanyong Wang , Patrick Rinke , Xinguo Ren

We present a theoretical framework and implementation details for self-energy embedding theory (SEET) with the GW approximation for the treatment of weakly correlated degrees of freedom and configuration interactions solver for handing the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-11 Tran Nguyen Lan , Avijit Shee , Jia Li , Emanuel Gull , Dominika Zgid

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

We present a simple linear model to estimate the basis set incompleteness errors (BSIE) of (vertex-corrected) $GW$ QP energies based on the kinetic energy of the corresponding orbital only. We parametrise the model for $G_0W_0$,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Dario Baum , Lucas Visscher , Arno Förster