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X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) measures electron removal energies, providing direct access to core and valence electron binding energies, hence probing the electronic structure. In this work, we benchmark for the first time the ab…
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…
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…
A hierarchy of wavefunction composite methods (cWFT), based on G4- type cWFT methods available for elements H through Rn, was recently reported by Semidalas and Martin [J. Chem. Theor. Comput. 2020, 16, 4238]. We extend this hierarchy by…
Deep-lying core electrons carry highly localized, site-specific information that forms the basis of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Accurately predicting their associated core ionization potentials (IPs) is a demanding theoretical task,…
We employ correlation-consistent effective core potentials (ccECPs) to perform exact or nearly exact correlation and total energy calculations for the fifth-row elements (Rb-Xe). Total energies are calculated using various correlated…
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…
We present a first-principles method for the calculation of optical excitations in nanosystems. The method is based on solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for neutral excitations. The electron self-energy is evaluated within the GW…
We present the first application to real molecular systems of the recently proposed linear-response theory for the density-based basis-set correction method [J. Chem. Phys. 158, 234107 (2023)]. We apply this approach to accelerate the…
The GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation (GW-BSE) formalism is a well-established approach for calculating excitation energies and optical spectra of molecules, nanostructures, and crystalline materials. We implement GW-BSE in the CP2K code and…
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…
Multicomponent methods are a conceptually simple way to include nuclear quantum effects into quantum chemistry calculations. In multicomponent methods, the electronic molecular orbitals are described using the linear combination of atomic…
The accuracy of the many-body perturbation theory GW formalism to calculate electron-phonon coupling matrix elements has been recently demonstrated in the case of a few important systems. However, the related computational costs are high…
Using the finite simulation-cell homogeneous electron gas (HEG) as a model, we investigate the convergence of the correlation energy to the complete basis set (CBS) limit in methods utilising plane-wave wavefunction expansions. Simple…
Hedin's scheme is solved with the inclusion of the vertex function ($GW\Gamma$) for a set of small molecules. The computational scheme allows for the consistent inclusion of the vertex both at the polarizability level and in the…
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…
We test the performance of self-consistent GW and several representative implementations of vertex corrected G0W0 (G0W0{\Gamma}). These approaches are tested on benchmark data sets covering full valence spectra (first ionization potentials…
Reliable computational methodologies and basis sets for modeling x-ray spectra are essential for extracting and interpreting electronic and structural information from experimental x-ray spectra. In particular, the trade-off between…
Atomic basis sets are widely employed within quantum mechanics based simulations of matter. We introduce a machine learning model that adapts the basis set to the local chemical environment of each atom, prior to the start of self…
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…