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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

The quasiparticle self-consistent QS$GW$ approach incorporates the corrections of the quasiparticle energies from their Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) eigenvalues by means of an energy independent and Hermitian self-energy matrix…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-08 Ozan Dernek , Dmitry Skachkov , Walter R. L. Lambrecht , Mark van Schilfgaarde

We present quasiparticle (QP) energies from fully self-consistent $GW$ (sc$GW$) calculations for a set of prototypical semiconductors and insulators within the framework of the projector-augmented wave methodology. To obtain converged…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-31 Manuel Grumet , Peitao Liu , Merzuk Kaltak , Jiří Klimeš , Georg Kresse

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

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

The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) is the key equation in many-body perturbation theory based on Green's functions to access response properties. Within the $GW$ approximation to the exchange-correlation kernel, the BSE has been successfully…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Roberto Orlando , Pina Romaniello , Pierre-François Loos

We present an approach to calculate the electronic structure for a range of materials using the quasiparticle self-consistent GW method with vertex corrections included in the screened Coulomb interaction W. This is achieved by solving the…

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

The $GW$ approximation is based on the neglect of vertex corrections, which appear in the exact self-energy and the exact polarizability. Here, we investigate the importance of vertex corrections in the polarizability only. We calculate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-16 Alan M. Lewis , Timothy C. Berkelbach

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…

Two self-consistent schemes involving Hedin's $GW$ approximation are studied for a set of sixteen different atoms and small molecules. We compare results from the fully self-consistent $GW$ approximation (SC$GW$) and the quasi-particle…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 Peter Koval , Dietrich Foerster , Daniel Sánchez-Portal

The $GW$ approximation is a widely used method for computing electron addition and removal energies of molecules and solids. The computational effort of conventional $GW$ algorithms increases as $O(N^4)$ with the system size $N$, hindering…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Mia Schambeck , Dorothea Golze , Jan Wilhelm

The vertex function ($\Gamma$) within the Green's function formalism encapsulates information about all higher-order electron-electron interaction beyond those mediated by density fluctuations. Herein, we present an efficient approach that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Guorong Weng , Rushil Mallarapu , Vojtech Vlcek

We introduce an alternative route to quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ calculations ($\mathrm{qs}GW$) on the basis of a Joint Approximate Diagonalization of the one-body $GW$ Green's functions $G(\varepsilon_n^{QP})$ taken at the input…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-05 Ivan Duchemin , Xavier Blase

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 report an all-electron implementation of the quasiparticle self-consistent GW (QSGW) method for molecular and periodic systems within the framework of numerical atomic orbitals (NAOs), as implemented in the LibRPA software package. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 Bohan Jia , Min-Ye Zhang , Ziqing Guan , Huanjing Gong , Xinguo Ren

We apply the renormalized singles (RS) Green's function in the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE)/$GW$ approach to predict accurate neutral excitation energies of molecular systems. The BSE calculations are performed on top of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Jiachen Li , Dorothea Golze , Weitao Yang

In past decades the scientific community has been looking for a reliable first-principles method to predict the electronic structure of solids with high accuracy. Here we present an approach which we call the quasiparticle self-consistent…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 M. van Schilfgaarde , T. Kotani , S. Faleev

We present theoretical calculations of quasiparticle energies in closed-shell molecules using the GW method. We compare three different approaches: a full-frequency $G_0W_0$ (FF-$G_0W_0$) method with density functional theory (DFT-PBE) used…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Johannes Lischner , Sahar Sharifzadeh , Jack Deslippe , Jeffrey B. Neaton , Steven G. Louie

We review the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) approach to the calculation of electronic excitation energies of molecular systems. We recall the general Green's function many-theory formalism and give the working equations of the BSE approach…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-04-05 Elisa Rebolini , Julien Toulouse , Andreas Savin

An efficient all-electron G$^0$W$^0$ method and a quasiparticle selfconsistent GW (QSGW) method for molecules are proposed in the molecular orbital space with the full random phase approximation. The convergence with basis set is examined.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 San-Huang Ke