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The GW approximation in electronic structure theory has become a widespread tool for predicting electronic excitations in chemical compounds and materials. In the realm of theoretical spectroscopy, the GW method provides access to charged…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-11 Dorothea Golze , Marc Dvorak , Patrick Rinke

Charged excitations of the oligoacene family of molecules, relevant for astrophysics and technological applications, are widely studied and therefore provide an excellent system for benchmarking theoretical methods. In this work, we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-18 Tonatiuh Rangel , Samia M. Hamed , Fabien Bruneval , Jeffrey B. Neaton

Two self-consistent schemes involving Hedin's $GW$ approximation are studied for a set of sixteen different atoms and small molecules. We compare results from the fully self-consistent $GW$ approximation (SC$GW$) and the quasi-particle…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 Peter Koval , Dietrich Foerster , Daniel Sánchez-Portal

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

In many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) the self-energy \Sigma=iGW\Gamma plays the key role since it contains all the many body effects of the system. The exact self-energy is not known; as first approximation one can set the vertex…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-23 Pina Romaniello , Friedhelm Bechstedt , Lucia Reining

The $GW$ method for calculating quasi-particle energies of solids commonly begin from a DFT Hamiltonian and Kohn-Sham orbitals in a plane wave basis. Screening of the coulomb interaction is implemented using the inverse dielectric function…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-20 Charles H. Patterson

We study within the many-body Green's function GW and Bethe-Salpeter formalisms the excitation energies of a paradigmatic model dipeptide, focusing on the four lowest-lying local and charge-transfer excitations. Our GW calculations are…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 Carina Faber , Paul Boulanger , Ivan Duchemin , Claudio Attaccalite , Xavier Blase

The many-body perturbation theory within the $GW$ approximation is a widely used method for describing the electronic band structures in real materials. Its application to large-scale systems is, however, impeded by its high computational…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 Min-Ye Zhang , Peize Lin , Rong Shi , Xinguo Ren

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-11 Soh Ishii , Hideaki Maebashi , Yasutami Takada

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

The use of Green's function in quantum many-body theory often leads to nonlinear eigenvalue problems, as Green's function needs to be defined in energy domain. The $GW$ approximation method is one of the typical examples. In this article,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Dongming Li , Eric Polizzi

In past decades the scientific community has been looking for a reliable first-principles method to predict the electronic structure of solids with high accuracy. Here we present an approach which we call the quasiparticle self-consistent…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 M. van Schilfgaarde , T. Kotani , S. Faleev

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

The GW approximation is a cornerstone of many-body perturbation theory for computing single-particle excitations, yet it fundamentally breaks down in strongly correlated systems where the single-reference picture fails. To overcome this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Yuqi Wang , Wei-Hai Fang , Zhendong Li

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

Similar to other electron correlation methods, many-body perturbation theory methods based on Green functions, such as the so-called $GW$ approximation, suffer from the usual slow convergence of energetic properties with respect to the size…

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Minjung Kim , Glenn J. Martyna , Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

An efficient all-electron G$^0$W$^0$ method and a quasiparticle selfconsistent GW (QSGW) method for molecules are proposed in the molecular orbital space with the full random phase approximation. The convergence with basis set is examined.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 San-Huang Ke

We report an all-electron, atomic orbital (AO) based, two-component (2C) implementation of the $GW$ approximation (GWA) for closed-shell molecules. Our algorithm is based on the space-time formulation of the GWA and uses analytical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Arno Förster , Erik van Lenthe , Edoardo Spadetto , Lucas Visscher

While highly successful, density functional theory is known to have limitations owing to its neglect of many-body electron-electron interactions. This neglect leads to errors in the single-particle energies, leading to underestimated band…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-16 John Vinson , Terrence Jach , Rainer Unterumsberger , Michael A. Woodcox , Burkhard Beckhoff