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We evaluate the performances of ab initio GW calculations for the ionization energies and HOMO-LUMO gaps of thirteen gas phase molecules of interest for organic electronic and photovoltaic applications, including the C60 fullerene,…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-04-01 Xavier Blase , Claudio Attaccalite , Valerio Olevano

We present the formalism and implementation of quasi-particle self-consistent GW (qsGW) and eigenvalue only quasi-particle self-consistent GW (evGW) adapted to standard quantum chemistry packages. Our implementation is benchmarked against…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 F. Kaplan , M. E. Harding , C. Seiler , F. Weigend , F. Evers , M. J. van Setten

We apply the quasiparticle self-consistent GW method (QSGW) to slab models of ionic materials, LiF, KF, NaCl, MgO, and CaO, under electric field. Then we obtain the optical dielectric constants E(Slab) from the differences of the slopes of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-20 Hirofumi Sakakibara , Takao Kotani , Masao Obata , Tatsuki Oda

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 GW self-energy method has long been recognized as the gold standard for quasiparticle (QP) calculations of solids in spite of the fact that the neglect of vertex corrections and the use of a DFT starting point lacks rigorous…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-06 Per S. Schmidt , Christopher E. Patrick , Kristian S. Thygesen

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

We present a tight-binding based GW approach for the calculation of quasiparticle energy levels in confined systems such as molecules. Key quantities in the GW formalism like the microscopic dielectric function or the screened Coulomb…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 T. A. Niehaus , M. Rohlfing , F. Della Sala , A. Di Carlo , Th. Frauenheim

In transition metal doped ZnO, the energy position of dopant 3$d$ states relative to host conduction and valence bands is crucial in determining the possibilty of long range ferromagnetism. Density functional theory based estimates of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-12 I. Abdolhosseini Sarsari , C. D. Pemmaraju , H. Salamati , S. Sanvito

For materials which are incorrectly predicted by density functional theory to be metallic, an iterative procedure must be adopted in order to perform GW calculations. In this paper we test two iterative schemes based on the quasi-particle…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Popa , G. Brocks , P. J. Kelly

We present the G$_0$W$_0$ band structure, core levels, and deformation potential of monolayer FeSe in the paramagnetic phase based on a starting mean field of the Kohn Sham density functional theory (DFT) with the PBE functional. We find…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-09 Diana Y. Qiu , Sinisa Coh , Marvin L. Cohen , Steven G. Louie

An oversight of some previous density functional calculations of the band gaps of wurtzite and cubic InN and of wurtzite GaN by Rinke et al. [Appl. Phys. Lett. 89,161919, 2006] led to an inaccurate and misleading statement relative to…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-03 D. Bagayoko , L. Franklin , G. L. Zhao

We present a comparison of various approximations to self-consistency in the GW method, including the one-shot G0W0 method, different quasiparticle self-consistency schemes, and the fully self-consistent GW (scGW) approach. To ensure an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-17 Gaurav Harsha , Vibin Abraham , Ming Wen , Dominika Zgid

A low-cost approach for stochastically sampling static exchange during TDHF-type propagation is presented. This enables the use of an excellent hybrid DFT starting point for stochastic GW quasiparticle energy calculations. Generalized…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Tucker Allen , Minh Nguyen , Daniel Neuhauser

We present an implementation of the optimised effective potential (OEP) scheme for the exact-exchange (EXX) and random phase approximation (RPA) energy functionals and apply these methods to a range of bulk materials. We calculate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-16 Jiří Klimeš , Georg Kresse

We present results for the electronic structure of plutonium by using a recently developed quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ method (\qsgw). We consider a paramagnetic solution without spin-orbit interaction as a function of volume for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-07-23 A. N. Chantis , R. C. Albers , A. Svane , N. E. Christensen

Similar to other electron correlation methods, many-body perturbation theory methods based on Green functions, such as the so-called $GW$ approximation, suffer from the usual slow convergence of energetic properties with respect to the size…

We performed first-principles density functional theory (DFT) and GW calculations to investigate electronic structures of bulk and few-layer PdSe2. We obtained the quasiparticle band structure of bulk PdSe2, and the obtained energy gap…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-02 Han-gyu Kim , Hyoung Joon Choi

The many-body perturbation theory within the $GW$ approximation is a widely used method for describing the electronic band structures in real materials. Its application to large-scale systems is, however, impeded by its high computational…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 Min-Ye Zhang , Peize Lin , Rong Shi , Xinguo Ren

We present an accurate approach to compute X-ray photoelectron spectra based on the $GW$ Green's function method, that overcomes shortcomings of common density functional theory approaches. $GW$ has become a popular tool to compute valence…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Dorothea Golze , Levi Keller , Patrick Rinke

There is increasing interest in many-body perturbation theory as a practical tool for the calculation of ground-state properties. As a consequence, unambiguous sum rules such as the conservation of particle number under the influence of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Arno Schindlmayr , P. Garcia-Gonzalez , R. W. Godby