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The $GW$ approximation is a widely used method for computing electron addition and removal energies of molecules and solids. The computational effort of conventional $GW$ algorithms increases as $O(N^4)$ with the system size $N$, hindering…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Mia Schambeck , Dorothea Golze , Jan Wilhelm

We analyze a data set comprising 370 GW band structures composed of 61716 quasiparticle (QP) energies of two-dimensional (2D) materials spanning 14 crystal structures and 52 elements. The data results from PAW plane wave based one-shot…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-05 Asbjørn Rasmussen , Thorsten Deilmann , Kristian S. Thygesen

We show that quasiparticle (QP) energies as calculated in the $GW$ approximation converge to the wrong value using the projector augmented wave (PAW) method, since the overlap integrals between occupied orbitals and high energy, plane wave…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-20 Jiří Klimeš , Merzuk Kaltak , Georg Kresse

The GW self-energy method has long been recognized as the gold standard for quasiparticle (QP) calculations of solids in spite of the fact that the neglect of vertex corrections and the use of a DFT starting point lacks rigorous…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-06 Per S. Schmidt , Christopher E. Patrick , Kristian S. Thygesen

We have developed the quasiparticle self-consistent GW (QSGW) method based on a recently developed mixed basis all-electron full-potential method (the PMT method), which uses the augmented plane waves (APWs) and the highly localized…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-18 Takao Kotani

We introduce an alternative route to quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ calculations ($\mathrm{qs}GW$) on the basis of a Joint Approximate Diagonalization of the one-body $GW$ Green's functions $G(\varepsilon_n^{QP})$ taken at the input…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-05 Ivan Duchemin , Xavier Blase

It is usually argued that the presence of gapless quasiparticle excitations at the nodes of the d-wave superconducting gap should strongly decohere the quantum states of a d-wave qubit, making quantum effects practically unobservable. Using…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 M. H. S. Amin , A. Yu. Smirnov

We present a comparison of various approximations to self-consistency in the GW method, including the one-shot G0W0 method, different quasiparticle self-consistency schemes, and the fully self-consistent GW (scGW) approach. To ensure an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-17 Gaurav Harsha , Vibin Abraham , Ming Wen , Dominika Zgid

We study leading-order many-body effects of longitudinal optical (LO) phonons on electronic properties of one-dimensional quantum wire systems. We calculate the quasiparticle properties of a weakly polar one dimensional electron gas in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. H. Hwang , Ben Yu-Kuang Hu , S. Das Sarma

Self consistent quantum approaches are used to study the instabilities of finite nuclear systems. The frequencies of multipole density fluctuations are determined as a function of dilution and temperature, for several isotopes. The spinodal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Colonna , Ph. Chomaz , S. Ayik

We study a nonlocal Poisson problem with discontinuous source term and analyze how the regularity of the integral kernel determines the discontinuity structure of the corresponding solution. Under general assumptions on compactly supported…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Thinh Dang , Bacim Alali , Nathan Albin

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

Many-body perturbation theory in the GW approximation is a useful method for describing electronic properties associated with charged excitations. A hierarchy of GW methods exists, starting from non-self-consistent G0W0, through partial…

We perform $GW$ calculations on atoms and diatomic molecules at different levels of self-consistency and investigate the effects of self-consistency on total energies, ionization potentials and on particle number conservation. We further…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Adrian Stan , Nils Erik Dahlen , Robert van Leeuwen

We present an extension of the quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ approximation (QS$GW$) [Phys. Rev. B, 76 165106 (2007)] to include vertex corrections in the screened Coulomb interaction $W$. This is achieved by solving the Bethe-Salpeter…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-11 Brian Cunningham , Myrta Grüning , Dimitar Pashov , Mark van Schilfgaarde

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)…

The self-consistent theory of the correlation effects in Highly Correlated Systems(HCS) is presented. The novel Irreducible Green's Functions(IGF) method is discused in detail for the Hubbard model and random Hubbard model. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-02-03 A. L. Kuzemsky

We develop a theory of the quasiparticle interference (QPI) in multiband superconductors based on strong-coupling Eliashberg approach within the Born approximation. In the framework of this theory, we study dependencies of the QPI response…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-11 A. Dutt , A. A. Golubov , O. V. Dolgov , D. V. Efremov

The quasiparticle self-consistent QS$GW$ approach incorporates the corrections of the quasiparticle energies from their Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) eigenvalues by means of an energy independent and Hermitian self-energy matrix…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-08 Ozan Dernek , Dmitry Skachkov , Walter R. L. Lambrecht , Mark van Schilfgaarde

We present an approach for GW calculations of quasiparticle energies with quasi-quadratic scaling by approximating high-energy contributions to the Green's function in its Lehmann representation with effective stochastic vectors. The method…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-07 Aaron R. Altman , Sudipta Kundu , Felipe H. da Jornada