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We implement the GW space-time method at finite temperatures, in which the Green's function G and the screened Coulomb interaction W are represented in the real space on a suitable mesh and in imaginary time in terms of Chebyshev…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-11 Sam Azadi , Arkadiy Davydov , Evgeny Kozik

The accurate prediction of electronic response properties of extended molecular systems has been a challenge for conventional, explicit density functionals. We demonstrate that a self-interaction correction implemented rigorously within…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Körzdörfer , M. Mundt , S. Kümmel

The accuracy of the many-body perturbation theory GW formalism to calculate electron-phonon coupling matrix elements has been recently demonstrated in the case of a few important systems. However, the related computational costs are high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 C. Faber , P. Boulanger , C. Attaccalite , E. Cannuccia , I. Duchemin , T. Deutsch , X. Blase

We present a new ab initio method for calculating effective onsite Coulomb interactions of itinerant and strongly correlated electron systems. The method is based on constrained local density functional theory formulated in terms of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Kazuma Nakamura , Ryotaro Arita , Yoshihide Yoshimoto , Shinji Tsuneyuki

We reexamine the recently introduced basis-set correction theory based on density-functional theory consisting in correcting the basis-set incompleteness error of wave-function methods using a density functional. We use a one-dimensional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Diata Traore , Emmanuel Giner , Julien Toulouse

The differential and partially integrated cross sections are considered for bremsstrahlung from high-energy electrons in atomic field with the exact account of this field. The consideration exploits the quasiclassical electron Green's…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 R. N. Lee , A. I. Milstein , V. M. Strakhovenko , O. Ya. Schwarz

We investigate from a practitioner's point of view the computation of the ionization potential (IP) within density functional theory (DFT). DFT with (semi-)local energy-density functionals is plagued by a self-interaction error which…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2015-06-16 Peter Klüpfel , Mai Phuong Dinh , Paul-Gerhard Reinhard , Eric Suraud

A few approximate schemes to solve the Hedin equations self-consistently introduced in (Phys. Rev. B 94, 155101 (2016)) are explored and tested for the 3D electron gas at metallic densities. We calculate one electron spectra, dielectric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-12 A. L. Kutepov , G. Kotliar

Standard spin-density functionals for the exchange-correlation energy of a many-electron ground state make serious self-interaction errors which can be corrected by the Perdew-Zunger self-interaction correction (SIC). We propose a…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-28 Mark R Pederson , Adrienn Ruzsinszky , John P. Perdew

We have implemented the so called GW approximation (GWA) based on an all-electron full-potential Projector Augmented Wave (PAW) method. For the screening of the Coulomb interaction W we tested three different plasmon-pole dielectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Arnaud , M. Alouani

Electronic structure of layered van der Waals ferromagnet CrI$_{3}$ is studied with self consistent diagrammatic approaches beyond GW approximation. Considerable improvement in the calculated band gap as compared to the non-self-consistent…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-01 Andrey L. Kutepov

The physics of electronic energy level alignment at interfaces formed between molecules and metals can in general be accurately captured by the \emph{ab initio} $GW$ approach. However, the computational cost of such $GW$ calculations for…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-27 Zhen-Fei Liu , Felipe H. da Jornada , Steven G. Louie , Jeffrey B. Neaton

The $GW$ approximation is a well-established method for calculating ionization potentials and electron affinities in solids and molecules. For numerous years, obtaining self-consistent $GW$ total energies in solids has been a challenging…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Adam Hassan Denawi , Fabien Bruneval , Marc Torrent , Mauricio Rodríguez-Mayorga

Despite the success of density functional approximations (DFAs) in describing the electronic properties of many-electron systems, the most widely used approximations suffer from self-interaction errors (SIE) that limit their predictive…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Yoh Yamamoto , Carlos M. Diaz , Luis Basurto , Koblar A. Jackson , Tunna Baruah , Rajendra R. Zope

We study the unscreened Coulomb interaction in a one-dimensional electron system at low-energy. We use renormalization group methods and a GW approximation, in order to analyze the model. This yields both a strong wavefunction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Bellucci

We train a neural network as the universal exchange-correlation functional of density-functional theory that simultaneously reproduces both the exact exchange-correlation energy and potential. This functional is extremely non-local, but…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Jonathan Schmidt , Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros , Miguel A. L. Marques

In the present work, we revisit the problem of the inhomogeneous electron gas under the influence of a weak external potential, which allows us to calculate the gradient corrections to the density functional within linear response, an…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-03 Mario Benites , Angel Rosado , Efstratios Manousakis

The family of Green's function methods based on the $GW$ approximation has gained popularity in the electronic structure theory thanks to its accuracy in weakly correlated systems combined with its cost-effectiveness. Despite this,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Antoine Marie , Pierre-François Loos

An enhanced static approximation for the electron self energy operator is proposed for efficient calculation of quasiparticle energies. Analysis of the static COHSEX approximation originally proposed by Hedin shows that most of the error…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-18 Wei Kang , Mark S. Hybertsen

In approximate Kohn-Sham density-functional theory, self-interaction manifests itself as the dependence of the energy of an orbital on its fractional occupation. This unphysical behavior translates into qualitative and quantitative errors…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-28 Ismaila Dabo , Andrea Ferretti , Nicolas Poilvert , Yanli Li , Nicola Marzari , Matteo Cococcioni