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ComDMFT is a massively parallel computational package to study the electronic structure of correlated-electron systems (CES). Our approach is a parameter-free method based on ab initio linearized quasiparticle self-consistent GW (LQSGW) and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-22 Sangkook Choi , Patrick Semon , Byungkyun Kang , Andrey Kutepov , Gabriel Kotliar

The dielectric function is one of the most important quantities that describes the electrical and optical properties of solids. Accurate modeling of the frequency-dependent dielectric function has great significance in the study of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-18 Fan Zheng , Jianmin Tao , Andrew M. Rappe

The reliable {\it ab-initio} description of strongly correlated materials is a long-sought capability in condensed matter physics. The $GW$+EDMFT method is a promising scheme, which provides a self-consistent description of correlations and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-08 Francesco Petocchi , Viktor Christiansson , Philipp Werner

We present an embedding scheme for periodic systems that facilitates the treatment of the physically important part (here the unit cell) with advanced electronic-structure methods, that are computationally too expensive for periodic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-08 Wael Chibani , Xinguo Ren , Matthias Scheffler , Patrick Rinke

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

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

We generalize the dynamical-mean field (DMFT) approximation by including into the DMFT equations some length scale via a momentum dependent ``external'' self-energy S(k). This external self-energy describes non-local dynamical correlations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 M. V. Sadovskii , I. A. Nekrasov , E. Z. Kuchinskii , Th. Pruschke , V. I. Anisimov

Using the triangular-lattice extended Hubbard model as a test system, we compare $GW$+EDMFT results for the recently proposed self-consistency scheme with causal auxiliary fields to those obtained from the standard implementation which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-06 Jiyu Chen , Francesco Petocchi , Philipp Werner

We present quasiparticle self-consistent GW (QSGW) calculations of semimetallic bulk Bi. We go beyond the conventional QSGW method by including the spin-orbit coupling throughout the self-consistency cycle. This approach improves the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-27 Irene Aguilera , Christoph Friedrich , Stefan Blügel

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

We present a theoretical framework and implementation details for self-energy embedding theory (SEET) with the GW approximation for the treatment of weakly correlated degrees of freedom and configuration interactions solver for handing the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-11 Tran Nguyen Lan , Avijit Shee , Jia Li , Emanuel Gull , Dominika Zgid

We report quasiparticle-energy calculations of the electronic bandstructure as measured by valence-band photoemission for selected II-VI compounds and group-III-nitrides. By applying GW as perturbation to the ground state of the fictitious,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Patrick Rinke , Abdallah Qteish , Joerg Neugebauer , Christoph Freysoldt , Matthias Scheffler

An oversight of several previous local density approximation (LDA) results appears to have led to an incomplete picture of the actual capability of density functional theory (DFT), with emphasis on LDA, to describe and to predict the band…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-12-16 D. Bagayoko , G. L. Zhao , L. Franklin , E. C. Ekuma

We present a code implementing the linearized self-consistent quasiparticle GW method (scQPGW) in the LAPW basis. Our approach is based on the linearization of the self-energy around zero frequency which differs it from the existing…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 Andrey L. Kutepov , Viktor S. Oudovenko , Gabriel Kotliar

We use fully self-consistent GW calculations on diamond and silicon carbide to reparametrize the Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof exact exchange density functional for use in band structure calculations of semiconductors and insulators. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 V. Zólyomi , J. Kürti

The GW approximation is widely used for reliable and accurate modeling of single-particle excitations. It also serves as a starting point for many theoretical methods, such as its use in the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) and dynamical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Weiwei Gao , Zhao Tang , Jijun Zhao , James R. Chelikowsky

Accurately calculating band gaps for given crystal structures is highly desirable. However, conventional first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) within the local density approximation (LDA) fail to predict…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-28 Shota Tankano , Takao Kotani , Masao Obata , Kazunori Sato , Harutaka Saito , Tatsuki Oda

Ensemble Density Functional Theory (EDFT) is a generalization of ground-state Density Functional Theory (GS DFT), which is based on an exact formal theory of finite collections of a system's ground and excited states. EDFT in various forms…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-27 Remi J. Leano , Aurora Pribram-Jones , David A. Strubbe

In a recent Letter, Zhao et al. [1] reported the origin of quasi-one-dimensional metal-insulator (MI) transitions in compound semiconductor surfaces. Based on a density-functional theory (DFT) calculation within the generalized gradient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Sun-Woo Kim , Yoon-Gu Kang , Hyun-Jung Kim , Jun-Hyung Cho

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,…