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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…

Using a band-structure method that includes the correction to the band gap error in the local density approximation (LDA), we study the chemical trends of the band gap variation in III-V semiconductors and predict that the band gap for InN…

At energies ($\sqrt{s}$) much higher than the electroweak gauge boson masses ($M$) large logarithmic corrections of the scale ratio $\sqrt{s}/M$ occur. While the electroweak Sudakov type double (DL) and universal single (SL) logarithms have…

We present quasiparticle (QP) energies from fully self-consistent $GW$ (sc$GW$) calculations for a set of prototypical semiconductors and insulators within the framework of the projector-augmented wave methodology. To obtain converged…

We report results from a fast, efficient, and first-principles full-potential N$^{th}$-order muffin-tin orbital (FP-NMTO) method combined with van Leeuwen-Baerends correction to local density exchange-correlation potential. We show that…

Ab-initio, self-consistent electronic energy bands of rutile TiO2 are reported within the local density functional approximation (LDA). Our first principle, non-relativistic and ground state calculations employed a local density functional…

The electronic energy band structure of strained and unstrained Si, Ge and SiGe alloys is examined in this work using thirty-level k.p analysis. The energy bands are at first obtained with ab initio calculations based on the…

Experimental mirror energy differences (MED) for nuclei lying in the middle and the second part of $1f_{7/2}$ shell are compared with shell model calculations in the $1f_{7/2}$ and in the full $pf$ configuration spaces, as well as with CSM…

We have used Low Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED) I-V analysis and ab initio calculations to quantitatively determine the honeycomb chain model structure for the Si(111)-3x2-Sm surface. This structure and a similar 3x1 recontruction have…

The radiative self-energy correction to the bound-electron g factor of 2P_1/2 and 2P_3/2 states in one-electron ions is evaluated to order alpha (Z alpha)^2. The contribution of high-energy virtual photons is treated by means of an…

We present results on the self-energy correction to the energy levels of hydrogen and hydrogenlike ions. The self energy represents the largest QED correction to the relativistic (Dirac-Coulomb) energy of a bound electron. We focus on the…

LiGa$_5$O$_8$ in the spinel type structure is investigated as a potential ultra-wide-band-gap semiconductor. The band structure is determined using the quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ method and the optical properties are calculated at…

Many-body perturbation theory methods, such as the $G_0W_0$ approximation, are able to accurately predict quasiparticle (QP) properties of several classes of materials. However, the calculation of the QP band structure of two-dimensional…

We introduce and motivate the method of effective charges, and consider how to implement an all-orders resummation of large kinematical logarithms in this formalism. Fits for QCD \Lambda and power corrections are performed for the e+e-…

We analyze the electronic structure of group III-V semiconductors obtained within full potential linearized augmented plane wave (FP-LAPW) method and arrive at a realistic and minimal tight-binding model, parameterized to provide an…

The band structure of the cubic spinel compound LiV_2O_4, which has been reported recently to show heavy Fermion behavior, has been calculated within the local-density approximation using a full-potential version of the linear…

The electronic structure of the monoclinic structure of Fe$_3$O$_4$ is studied using both the local density approximation (LDA) and the LDA+$U$. The LDA gives only a small charge disproportionation, thus excluding that the structural…

A new method for calculation of band structure has been proposed based on the Green's function theory and local sampling. Potential energy in the Hamiltonian of Schrodinger's equation is approximated with a series of sampled Dirac delta…

We use alchemical first order derivatives for the rapid yet robust prediction of band structures. The power of the approach is demonstrated for the design challenge of finding Al$_x$Ga$_{1-x}$As semiconductor alloys with large direct band…

An ab-initio pseudopotential calculation using density functional theory within the local density approximation has been performed to investigate the electronic properties of TlSe which is of chain-like crystal geometry. The energy bands…