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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

We analyze a data set comprising 370 GW band structures composed of 61716 quasiparticle (QP) energies of two-dimensional (2D) materials spanning 14 crystal structures and 52 elements. The data results from PAW plane wave based one-shot…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-05 Asbjørn Rasmussen , Thorsten Deilmann , Kristian S. Thygesen

Half-metallic Heusler compounds are of significant interest for spintronics. For device fabrication, compounds that can be epitaxially grown on III-V semiconductors are particularly attractive. We present a first-principles investigation of…

Using seven semiconductors/insulators with band gaps covering the range from 1 eV to 10 eV we systematically explore the performance of two different variants of self-consistency associated with famous Hedin's system of equations: the full…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-20 Andrey L. Kutepov

A first-principles computational study is presented of various phases of LiAlO$_2$.The $\beta$ and $\gamma$ tetrahedral phases are found to be very close in energy with the $\gamma$ phase having the lowest energy. The octahedral $\alpha$…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-02 Phillip Popp , Walter R. L. Lambrecht

This paper describes an all-electron implementation of the self-consistent GW (sc-GW) approach -- i.e. based on the solution of the Dyson equation -- in an all-electron numeric atom-centered orbital (NAO) basis set. We cast Hedin's…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-12 Fabio Caruso , Patrick Rinke , Xinguo Ren , Angel Rubio , Matthias Scheffler

GW approximation is one of the most popular parameter-free many-body methods that goes beyond the limitations of the standard density functional theory (DFT) to determine the excitation spectra for moderately correlated materials and in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Kristjan Haule , Subhasish Mandal

Quasiparticle (QP) excitations are extremely important for understanding and predicting charge transfer and transport in molecules, nanostructures and extended systems. Since density functional theory (DFT) within the Kohn-Sham (KS)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Vojtech Vlcek , Eran Rabani , Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer

We present improved band structure calculations of the Mg-IV-N$_2$ compounds in the quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ approximation. Compared to previous calculations (Phys. Rev. B 94, 125201 (2016)) we here include the effects of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-24 Sai Lyu , Walter R. L. Lambrecht

The ab initio calculation of quasiparticle (QP) energies is a technically and computationally challenging problem. In condensed matter physics the most widely used approach to determine QP energies is the GW approximation. Although the GW…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-14 Zeynep Ergonenc , Bongjae Kim , Peitao Liu , Georg Kresse , Cesare Franchini

We present an approach to calculate the optical absorption spectra that combines the quasiparticle self-consistent GW method [Phys. Rev. B, 76 165106 (2007)] for the electronic structure with the solution of the ladder approximation to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-21 Brian Cunningham , Pooya Azarhoosh , Dimitar Pashov , Myrta Gruening , Mark van Schilfgaarde

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

Ab initio many-body perturbation theory within the $GW$ approximation is a Green's function formalism widely used in the calculation of quasiparticle excitation energies of solids. In what has become an increasingly standard approach,…

Calculating the quasiparticle (QP) band structure of two-dimensional (2D) materials within the GW self-energy approximation has proven to be a rather demanding computational task. The main reason is the strong $\mathbf{q}$-dependence of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-12 Filip A. Rasmussen , Per S. Schmidt , Kirsten T. Winther , Kristian S. Thygesen

Many-body perturbation theory in the GW approximation is a useful method for describing electronic properties associated with charged excitations. A hierarchy of GW methods exists, starting from non-self-consistent G0W0, through partial…

Quasi-particle self-consistent $GW$ calculations are presented for the band structures of LiGaO2 and NaGaO2 in the orthorhombic $Pna2_1$ tetrahedrally coordinated crystal structures. Symmetry labeling of the bands near the gap is carried…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-13 Santosh Kumar Radha , Amol Ratnaparkhe , Walter R. L. Lambrecht

Computing the $GW$ quasiparticle bandstructure and Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) absorption spectra for materials with spin-orbit coupling has commonly been done by treating $GW$ corrections and spin-orbit coupling as separate perturbations…

By recasting the non-linear frequency-dependent $GW$ quasiparticle equation into a linear eigenvalue problem, we explain the appearance of multiple solutions and unphysical discontinuities in various physical quantities computed within the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-16 Enzo Monino , Pierre-François Loos

Although the GW approximation is recognized as one of the most accurate theories for predicting materials excited states properties, scaling up conventional GW calculations for large systems remains a major challenge. We present a powerful…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Weiwei Gao , Weiyi Xia , Xiang Gao , Peihong Zhang

Supercontinuum light sources are widely used for applications ranging from imaging to sensing and frequency comb stabilization. The most common mechanisms for their generation rely on cubic nonlinearities, for instance in crystals, optical…