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We used our previously implemented GW approximation (GWA) based on the all-electron full-potential projector augmented wave (PAW) method to study the optical properties of small, medium and large-band-gap semiconductors: Si, GaAs, AlAs,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 B. Arnaud , M. Alouani

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

The GW approximation is a well-known method to improve electronic structure predictions calculated within density functional theory. In this work, we have implemented a computationally efficient GW approach that calculates central…

Hedin's $GW$ approximation to the electronic self-energy has been impressively successful to calculate quasiparticle energies, such as ionization potentials, electron affinities, or electronic band structures. The success of this fairly…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Arno Förster , Fabien Bruneval

Using quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ calculations, we re-examined the electronic structure of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ and SrRuO$_3$. Our calculations show that the correlation effects beyond the conventional LDA (local density approximation) and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-16 Hyeonsang Ryee , Seung Woo Jang , Hiori Kino , Takao Kotani , Myung Joon Han

We present a plane wave implementation of the G0W0 approximation within the projector augmented wave method code GPAW. The computed band gaps of ten bulk semiconductors and insulators deviate on average by 0.2 eV (~ 5 %) from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-10 Falco Hüser , Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-23 Alberto Guandalini , Pino D'Amico , Andrea Ferretti , Daniele Varsano

Using seven semiconductors/insulators with band gaps covering the range from 1 eV to 10 eV we systematically explore the performance of two different variants of self-consistency associated with famous Hedin's system of equations: the full…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-20 Andrey L. Kutepov

A novel picture of the quasiparticle (QP) gap in prototype semiconductors Si and Ge emerges from an analysis based on all-electron, self-consistent, GW calculations. The deep-core electrons are shown to play a key role via the exchange…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Wei Ku , A. G. Eguiluz

Within the framework of the full potential projector-augmented wave methodology, we present a promising low-scaling $GW$ implementation. It allows for quasiparticle calculations with a scaling that is cubic in the system size and linear in…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-12 Peitao Liu , Merzuk Kaltak , Jiří Klimeš , Georg Kresse

We have developed a multi-GPU version of the quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ (QSGW), a cutting-edge method for describing electronic excitations in a first-principles approach. While the QSGW calculation algorithm is inherently…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Masao Obata , Takao Kotani , Tatsuki Oda

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)…

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 report an all-electron implementation of the quasiparticle self-consistent GW (QSGW) method for molecular and periodic systems within the framework of numerical atomic orbitals (NAOs), as implemented in the LibRPA software package. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 Bohan Jia , Min-Ye Zhang , Ziqing Guan , Huanjing Gong , Xinguo Ren

Fully self-consistent GW (sc-GW) methods are now available to evaluate quasiparticle and spectral properties of various molecular and bulk systems. However, such techniques based on the full matrix of G and W are computationally demanding.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-17 Yashpal Singh , Lin-Wang Wang

We present an implementation of the GW approximation for the electronic self-energy within the full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave (FLAPW) method. The algorithm uses an all-electron mixed product basis for the representation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-15 Christoph Friedrich , Stefan Blügel , Arno Schindlmayr

The GW approximation represents the state-of-the-art ab-initio method for computing excited-state properties. Its execution requires control over a larger number of (often interdependent) parameters, and therefore its application in…

For materials which are incorrectly predicted by density functional theory to be metallic, an iterative procedure must be adopted in order to perform GW calculations. In this paper we test two iterative schemes based on the quasi-particle…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Popa , G. Brocks , P. J. Kelly

Theoretical studies of semiconductors and band insulators are usually based on variants of the $GW$ method without full self-consistency, like single-shot $G^0W^0$ or quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$. Fully self-consistent $GW$ provides a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-28 Viktor Christiansson , Francesco Petocchi , Philipp Werner

We introduce the $\Sigma^{\text{BSE}}@L^{\text{BSE}}$ self-energy in the quasi-particle self-consistent $GW$ (qs$GW$) framework (qs$\Sigma^{\text{BSE}}@L^{\text{BSE}}$). Here, $L$ is the two-particle response function which we calculate by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Arno Förster