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The present work proposes an approach to obtain a basis-set correction based on density-functional theory (DFT) for the computation of molecular properties in wave-function theory (WFT). This approach allows one to accelerate the basis-set…
The $GW$ approximation is based on the neglect of vertex corrections, which appear in the exact self-energy and the exact polarizability. Here, we investigate the importance of vertex corrections in the polarizability only. We calculate the…
Quantum chemistry calculations are often performed using atom-centered basis sets which are chosen to balance accuracy and cost. While they are systematically improvable, the total energy converges slowly with basis set size towards the…
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…
We investigate the electronic stress tensor of the hydrogen molecular ion for the ground state using the exact wave function and wave functions approximated by gaussian function basis set expansion. The spatial distribution of the largest…
The performance of two recent {\em ab initio} computational thermochemistry schemes, W1 and W2 theory [J.M.L. Martin and G. de Oliveira, J. Chem. Phys. 111, 1843 (1999}], is assessed for an enlarged sample of thermochemical data consisting…
The GW approximation has been widely accepted as an ab initio tool for calculating defect levels with many-electron effect included. However, the GW simulation cost increases dramatically with the system size, and, unfortunately, large…
We apply the renormalized singles (RS) Green's function in the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE)/$GW$ approach to predict accurate neutral excitation energies of molecular systems. The BSE calculations are performed on top of the…
The GVW algorithm is a signature-based algorithm for computing Gr\"obner bases. If the input system is not homogeneous, some J-pairs with higher signatures but lower degrees are rejected by GVW's Syzygy Criterion, instead, GVW have to…
High-precision calculations of the energy levels of the superheavy element Z=120 are presented. The relativistic Hartree-Fock and configuration interaction techniques are employed. The correlations between core and valence electrons are…
Core-level X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) is often used to study the surfaces of heterogeneous copper-based catalysts, but the interpretation of measured spectra, in particular the assignment of peaks to adsorbed species, can be…
Many-body Green's functions theory within the GW approximation and the Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) is implemented in the open-source VOTCA-XTP software, aiming at the calculation of electronically excited states in complex molecular…
GW calculations with fully self-consistent G and W -- based on the iterative solution of the Dyson equation -- provide an approach for consistently describing ground and excited states on the same quantum mechanical level. We show that for…
We have performed {\it ab initio} calculations for a series of energetic solids to explore their structural and electronic properties. To evaluate the ground state volume of these molecular solids, different dispersion correction methods…
In the present letter, it is demonstrated how full configuration interaction (FCI) results in extended basis sets may be obtained to within sub-kJ/mol accuracy by decomposing the energy in terms of many-body expansions in the virtual…
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 is considered to be the simplest approximation with Hedin's formulation of many-body perturbation theory. It is expected that some of the deficiencies of the $GW$ approximation can be overcome by adding the so-called…
The calculation of quasi-particle spectra based on the GW approximation is extended to systems of hundreds of atoms, thus expanding the size range of current approaches by more than one order of magnitude. This is achieved through an…
We investigate the use of optimized correlation consistent gaussian basis sets for the study of insulating solids with auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC). The exponents of the basis set are optimized through the minimization of the…
We discuss a variational calculation for nuclear shell-model calculations and propose a new procedure for the energy-variance extrapolation (EVE) method using a sequence of the approximated wave functions obtained by the variational…