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Excited-state calculations, notably for quasiparticle band structures, are nowadays routinely performed within the GW approximation for the electronic self-energy. Nevertheless, certain numerical approximations and simplifications are still…
In solid-state physics, energies of crystals are usually computed with a plane-wave discretization of Kohn-Sham equations. However the presence of Coulomb singularities requires the use of large plane-wave cut-offs to produce accurate…
We present a new kind self-consistent GW approximation (scGW) based on the all-electron, full-potential LMTO method. By iterating the eigenfunctions of the GW Hamiltonian, self-consistency in both the charge density and the quasiparticle…
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…
The $GW$ approximation to many-body perturbation theory is a reliable tool for describing charged electronic excitations, and it has been successfully applied to a wide range of extended systems for several decades using a plane-wave basis.…
The GW method is a many-body electronic structure technique capable of generating accurate quasiparticle properties for realistic systems spanning physics, chemistry, and materials science. Despite its power, GW is not routinely applied to…
We present and benchmark a self-energy approach for quasiparticle energy calculations that goes beyond Hedin's $GW$ approximation by adding the full second-order self-energy (FSOS-$W$) contribution. The FSOS-$W$ diagram involves two…
We analyse the accuracy of the approximate WKB quantization for the case of general one-dimensional quartic potential. In particular, we are interested in the validity of semiclassically predicted energy eigenvalues when approaching the…
Years ago S. Weinberg suggested the "Quasi-Particle" method (Q-P) for iteratively solving an integral equation, based on an expansion in terms of sturmian functions that are eigenfunctions of the integral kernel. An improvement of this…
The $GW$ approximation has been recently gaining popularity among the method for simulating molecular core-level X-ray photoemission spectra. Traditionally, $GW$ core-level binding energies have been computed using either the cc-pV$n$Z or…
We study the effect of semicore states on the self-energy corrections and electronic energy gaps of silicon, germanium and GaAs. Self-energy effects are computed within the GW approach, and electronic states are expanded in a plane-wave…
Based on an exact functional form derived for the three-point vertex function $\Gamma$, we propose a self-consistent calculation scheme for the electron self-energy with $\Gamma$ always satisfying the Ward identity. This scheme is basically…
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…
The analytic continuation of the GW self-energy from the imaginary to the real energy axis is a central difficulty for approaches exploiting the favourable properties of response functions at imaginary frequencies. Within a scheme merging…
We show that the results of photoemission and inverse photoemission experiments on bulk copper can be quantitatively described within band-structure theory, with no evidence of effects beyond the single-quasiparticle approximation. The well…
Electron correlation in finite and extended systems is often described in an effective single-particle framework within the $GW$ approximation. Here, we use the statically screened second-order exchange contribution to the self-energy…
The formulation of vertex corrections beyond the $GW$ approximation within the framework of perturbation theory is a subtle and challenging task, which accounts for the wide variety of schemes proposed over the years. Exact self-energies…
Accurate and efficient predictions of the quasiparticle properties of complex materials remain a major challenge due to the convergence issue and the unfavorable scaling of the computational cost with respect to the system size.…
We extend the effective dynamical quasiparticle model (DQPM) - constructed for the description of non-perturbative QCD phenomena of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (QGP) - to large baryon chemical potentials, $\mu_B$, including…
We show that a self-correcting GKP qubit can be realized with a high-impedance LC circuit coupled to a resistor and a Josephson junction via a controllable switch. When activating the switch in a particular stepwise pattern, the resonator…