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We introduce stochastic GW with the orthogonalized projector augmented-wave method (OPAW-sGW). This implementation enables accurate quasiparticle band gaps on significantly coarser real-space grids than norm-conserving pseudopotential sGW…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Dimitri Bazile , Minh Nguyen , Yuji Kon , Tucker Allen , Daniel Neuhauser

The projector-augmented wave (PAW) method is one of the approaches that are widely used to approximately treat core electrons and thus to speed-up plane-wave basis set electronic structure calculations. However, PAW involves approximations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Sirous Yourdkhani , Jiri Klimes

We have developed an efficient computational scheme utilizing the real-space finite-difference formalism and the projector augmented-wave (PAW) method to perform precise first-principles electronic-structure simulations based on the density…

We construct a reference database of materials properties calculated using density-functional theory in the local or generalized-gradient approximation, and an all-electron or a projector augmented-wave (PAW) formulation, for verification…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-14 E. Kucukbenli , M. Monni , B. I. Adetunji , X. Ge , G. A. Adebayo , N. Marzari , S. de Gironcoli , A. Dal Corso

We report a theoretical scheme that enables the calculation of maximally localized Wannier functions in the formalism of projector-augmented-waves (PAW) which also includes the ultrasoft-pseudopotential (USPP) approach. We give a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Ferretti , Arrigo Calzolari , Benedetta Bonferroni , Rosa Di Felice

The variation after projection (VAP) method is expected to be an efficient way of getting the optimized nuclear wave functions, so that they can be as close as possible to the exact shell model ones. However, we found there are two…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-21 Xiao Lu , Zhan-Jiang Lian , Xue-Wei Li , Zao-Chun Gao , Yong-Shou Chen

Motivated by the recently proposed parallel orbital-updating approach in real space method, we propose a parallel orbital-updating based plane-wave basis method for electronic structure calculations, for solving the corresponding eigenvalue…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Yan Pan , Xiaoying Dai , Stefano de Gironcoli , Xin-Gao Gong , Gian-Marco Rignanese , Aihui Zhou

We present valence electron Compton profiles calculated within the density-functional theory using the all-electron full-potential projector augmented-wave method (PAW). Our results for covalent (Si), metallic (Li, Al) and hydrogen-bonded…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Makkonen , M. Hakala , M. J. Puska

In this work we present a new method for basis set generation for electronic structure calculations of crystalline solids. This procedure is aimed at applications to Density Functional Theory (DFT). In this construction, Energy Window…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-16 Garry Goldstein

A new implementation of the GW approximation (GWA) based on the all-electron Projector-Augmented-Wave method (PAW) is presented, where the screened Coulomb interaction is computed within the Random Phase Approximation (RPA) instead of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Lebègue , B. Arnaud , M. Alouani , P. E. Bloechl

We examine the challenge of performing accurate electronic structure calculations at high pressures by comparing the results of all-electron full potential linearized augmented-plane-wave calculations with those of the projector augmented…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-11 Kanchan Sarkar , Mehmet Topsakal , N. A. W. Holzwarth , Renata M. Wentzcovitch

We present a computational scheme for orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) that simultaneously provides access to all-electron values and preserves the OFDFT linear scaling as a function of the system size. Using the projector…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-12-23 J. Lehtomäki , I. Makkonen , M. A. Caro , A. Harju , O. Lopez-Acevedo

The full-potential linearized augmented-plane wave (FP-LAPW) method is well known to enable most accurate calculations of the electronic structure and magnetic properties of crystals and surfaces. The implementation of atomic forces has…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Max Petersen , Frank Wagner , Lars Hufnagel , Matthias Scheffler , Peter Blaha , Karlheinz Schwarz

The projection of the eigenfunctions obtained in standard plane-wave first-principle electronic-structure calculations into atomic-orbital basis sets is proposed as a formal and practical link between the methods based on plane waves and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Daniel Sanchez-Portal , Emilio Artacho , Jose M. Soler

We present an implementation of the linear density response function within the projector-augmented wave (PAW) method with applications to the linear optical and dielectric properties of both solids, surfaces, and interfaces. The response…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-06-28 Jun Yan , Jens. J. Mortensen , Karsten W. Jacobsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

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

In this paper the salient features of the Plane Wave Expansion (PWE) method and the mixed variational technique are combined for the fast eigenvalue computations of arbitrarily complex phononic unit cells. This is done by expanding the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-29 Yan Lu , Ankit Srivastava

Starting from the observation that one of the most successful methods for solving the Kohn-Sham equations for periodic systems -- the plane-wave method -- is a spectral method based on eigenfunction expansion, we formulate a spectral method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Amartya S. Banerjee , Ryan S. Elliott , Richard D. James

The current state of the art for large-scale quantum-mechanical simulations is the planewave (PW) pseudopotential method, as implemented in codes such as VASP, ABINIT, and many others. However, since the PW method uses a global Fourier…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 John E. Pask , N. Sukumar