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The $GW$-Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) method is promising for calculating the low-lying excited states of molecular systems. So far, it has only been applied to rather small molecules, and in the commonly implemented diagonal…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Arno Förster , Lucas Visscher

Results are presented for highly accurate ab initio variational calculation of the rotation - vibration energy levels of H2O2 in its electronic ground state. These results use a recently computed potential energy surface and the variational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-27 Oleg L. Polyansky , Igor N. Kozin , Roman I. Ovsyannikov , Pawel Malyszek , Jacek Koput , Jonathan Tennyson , Sergei N. Yurchenko

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

For molecules and solids containing heavy elements, accurate electronic structure calculations require accounting not only for electronic correlations but also for relativistic effects. In molecules, relativity can lead to severe changes in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Gaurav Harsha , Vibin Abraham , Dominika Zgid

We present an energy-specific Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) implementation for efficient core and valence optical spectrum calculations. In energy-specific BSE, high-lying excitation energies are obtained by constructing trial vectors and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-29 Christopher Hillenbrand , Jiachen Li , Tianyu Zhu

We present quasiparticle (QP) energies from fully self-consistent $GW$ (sc$GW$) calculations for a set of prototypical semiconductors and insulators within the framework of the projector-augmented wave methodology. To obtain converged…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-31 Manuel Grumet , Peitao Liu , Merzuk Kaltak , Jiří Klimeš , Georg Kresse

We calculate the photoemission spectra of suspended and epitaxial doped graphene using an ab initio cumulant expansion of the Green's function based on the GW self-energy. Our results are compared to experiment and to standard GW…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Johannes Lischner , Derek Vigil-Fowler , Steven G. Louie

We provide an in-depth examination of the $GW$ approximation of Green's function many-body perturbation theory by detailing both its theoretical and practical aspects in the realm of quantum chemistry. First, the quasiparticle context is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Antoine Marie , Abdallah Ammar , Pierre-François Loos

We present a new, all-electron implementation of the GW approximation and apply it to wurtzite ZnO. Eigenfunctions computed in the local-density approximation (LDA) by the full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave (LAPW) or the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Manabu Usuda , Noriaki Hamada , Takao Kotani , Mark van Schilfgaarde

Green's function theory has emerged as a powerful many-body approach not only in condensed matter physics but also in quantum chemistry in recent years. We have developed a new all-electron implementation of the BSE@GW formalism using…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Ruiyi Zhou , Yi Yao , Volker Blum , Xinguo Ren , Yosuke Kanai

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

Molecule-metal interfaces have a broad range of applications in nanoscale materials science. Accurate characterization of their electronic structures from first-principles is key in understanding material and device properties. The GW…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-05 Zhenfei Liu

Using the simple (symmetric) Hubbard dimer, we analyze some important features of the $GW$ approximation. We show that the problem of the existence of multiple quasiparticle solutions in the (perturbative) one-shot $GW$ method and its…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Stefano Di Sabatino , Pierre-François Loos , Pina Romaniello

Various many-body perturbation theory techniques for calculating electron behavior rely on {\it W}, the screened Coulomb interaction. Computing {\it W} requires complete knowledge of the dielectric response of the electronic system, and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-30 John Vinson , Eric L. Shirley

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…

The combination of two-dimensional materials into heterostructures offers new opportunities for the design of optoelectronic devices with tunable properties. However, computing electronic and optical properties of such systems using…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-25 Maximilian Schebek , Ignacio Gonzalez Oliva , Claudia Draxl

X-ray standing wave (XSW) excited photoelectron emission was used to measure the site-specific valence band (VB) for 1/2 monolayer (ML) Pt grown on a SrTiO3 (001) surface. The XSW induced modulations in the core level (CL) and VB…

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 present a formulation of relativistic self-consistent $GW$ for solids based on the exact two-component formalism with one-electron approximation (X2C1e) and non-relativistic Coulomb interactions. Our theory allows us to study scalar…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-31 Chia-Nan Yeh , Avijit Shee , Qiming Sun , Emanuel Gull , Dominika Zgid

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