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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…

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

On the basis of first-principles GW calculations, we study the quasiparticle properties of the guanine, adenine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil DNA and RNA nucleobases. Beyond standard G0W0 calculations, starting from Kohn-Sham eigenstates…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Carina Faber , Claudio Attaccalite , Valerio Olevano , Erich Runge , Xavier Blase

We present a scalable implementation of the $GW$ approximation using Gaussian atomic orbitals to study the valence and core ionization spectroscopies of molecules. The implementation of the standard spectral decomposition approach to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Daniel Mejia-Rodriguez , Alexander Kunitsa , Edoardo Aprà , Niranjan Govind

We use an all-electron implementation of the GW approximation to analyze several possible sources of error in the theory and its implementation. Among these are convergence in the polarization and Green's functions, the dependence of QP…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 M. van Schilfgaarde , T. Kotani , S. Faleev

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

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

A new cumulant-based $GW$ approximation for the retarded one-particle Green's function is proposed, motivated by an exact relation between the improper Dyson self-energy and the cumulant generating function. Qualitative aspects of this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-21 Matthew Z. Mayers , Mark S. Hybertsen , David R. Reichman

We present a simple linear model to estimate the basis set incompleteness errors (BSIE) of (vertex-corrected) $GW$ QP energies based on the kinetic energy of the corresponding orbital only. We parametrise the model for $G_0W_0$,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Dario Baum , Lucas Visscher , Arno Förster

We present an extension of the quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ approximation (QS$GW$) [Phys. Rev. B, 76 165106 (2007)] to include vertex corrections in the screened Coulomb interaction $W$. This is achieved by solving the Bethe-Salpeter…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-11 Brian Cunningham , Myrta Grüning , Dimitar Pashov , Mark van Schilfgaarde

We have developed a multi-GPU version of the quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ (QSGW), a cutting-edge method for describing electronic excitations in a first-principles approach. While the QSGW calculation algorithm is inherently…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Masao Obata , Takao Kotani , Tatsuki Oda

The $GW$ method is widely used for calculating the electronic band structure of materials. The high computational cost of $GW$ algorithms prohibits their application to many systems of interest. We present a periodic, low-scaling and highly…

We present a nontrivial model system of interacting electrons that can be solved analytically in the GW approximation. We obtain the particle number from the GW Green's function strictly analytically, and prove that there is a genuine…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-03 Arno Schindlmayr

Over the years, Hedin's $GW$ self-energy has been proven to be a rather accurate and simple approximation to evaluate electronic quasiparticle energies in solids and in molecules. Attempts to improve over the simple $GW$ approximation, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Fabien Bruneval , Arno Förster

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

Recently, the $GW$ approach has emerged as a valuable tool for computing deep core-level binding energies as measured in X-ray photoemission spectroscopy. However, $GW$ fails to accurately predict shake-up satellite features, which arise…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Jannis Kockläuner , Dorothea Golze

The $GW$ approximation has been recently gaining popularity among the method for simulating molecular core-level X-ray photoemission spectra. Traditionally, $GW$ core-level binding energies have been computed using either the cc-pV$n$Z or…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Daniel Mejia-Rodriguez , Alexander Kunitsa , Edoardo Aprà , Niranjan Govind

Common G$_0$W$_0$ implementations rely on numerical or analytical frequency integration to determine the G$_0$W$_0$ self-energy, which results in a variety of practical complications. Recently, we demonstrated an exact connection between…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 Johannes Tölle , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

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

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