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Any many-body approximation corrected for unphysical repeated collisions in a given condensation channel is shown to provide the same set of equations as they appear by using anomalous propagators. The ad-hoc assumption in the latter theory…
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…
Hedin's equations are solved perturbatively in zero dimension to count Feynman graphs for self-energy, polarization, propagator, effective potential and vertex function in a many-body theory of fermions with two-body interaction. Counting…
We present a general procedure for obtaining progressively more accurate functional expressions for the electron self-energy by iterative solution of Hedin's coupled equations. The iterative process starting from Hartree theory, which gives…
Starting with Hedins equations, simple expressions for the irreducible self-energy are derived. The derivation with vertex effects included in the self-energy results in a number of terms beyond GW such as second-order screened exchange…
Hedin's $GW$ approximation to the electronic self-energy has been impressively successful to calculate quasiparticle energies, such as ionization potentials, electron affinities, or electronic band structures. The success of this fairly…
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…
Historically, the GW approach was put forward by Hedin as the simplest approximation to the so-called Hedin equations. In Section 2, we will derive these Hedin equations from a Feynman-diagrammatical point of view. Section 3.1 shows how GW…
In a typical scenario the diagrammatic many-body perturbation theory generates asymptotic series. Despite non-convergence, the asymptotic expansions are useful when truncated to a finite number of terms. This is the reason for popularity of…
Organic electronics is a rapidly developing technology. Typically, the molecules involved in organic electronics are made up of hundreds of atoms, prohibiting a theoretical description by wavefunction-based ab-initio methods.…
We provide the formal extension of Hedin's GW equations for single-particle Green's functions with electron-electron interaction onto the Keldysh time-loop contour. We show an application of our formalism to the plasmon model of a core…
The Martin-Schwinger hierarchy of correlations are reexamined and the three-particle correlations are investigated under various partial summations. Besides the known approximations of screened, ladder and maximally crossed diagrams the…
The band gaps of a few selected semiconductors/insulators are obtained from the self-consistent solution of the Hedin's equations. Two different schemes to include the vertex corrections are studied: (i) the vertex function of the…
In many ways the solution to the Hedin equations represents an exact solution to the many body problem. However, for most systems of practical interest, the solution to the Hedin equations is rendered nearly numerically intractable because…
We present a diagrammatic approach to construct self-energy approximations within many-body perturbation theory with positive spectral properties. The method cures the problem of negative spectral functions which arises from a…
A novel self-consistent implementation of Hedin's GW perturbation theory is introduced. This finite-temperature method uses Hartree-Fock wave functions to represent Green's function. GW equations are solved with full potential linear…
Self-consistent solutions of Hedin's diagrammatic theory equations (HE) for the two-site Hubbard Model (HM) have been studied. They have been found for three-point vertices of increasing complexity ($\Gamma=1$ (GW approximation),…
The parquet formalism and Hedin's $GW\gamma$ approach are unified into a single theory of vertex corrections, corresponding to an exact reformulation of the parquet equations in terms of boson exchange. The method has no drawbacks compared…
Within many-body perturbation theory, Hedin's formalism offers a systematic way to iteratively compute the self-energy $\Sigma$ of any interacting system, provided one can evaluate the interaction vertex $\Gamma$ exactly. This is however…
We describe an implementation of Hedin's GW approximation for molecules and clusters, the complexity of which scales as O(N^3) with the number of atoms. Our method is guided by two strategies: i) to respect the locality of the underlying…