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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 quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ (QSGW) implementation for periodic systems based on crystalline Gaussian basis sets. Our QSGW approach is based on a full-frequency analytic continuation GW scheme with Brillouin zone sampling…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Jincheng Lei , Tianyu Zhu

We describe an all-electron $G_0W_0$ implementation for periodic systems with $k$-point sampling implemented in a crystalline Gaussian basis. Our full-frequency $G_0W_0$ method relies on efficient Gaussian density fitting integrals and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-08 Tianyu Zhu , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

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

We analyze a data set comprising 370 GW band structures composed of 61716 quasiparticle (QP) energies of two-dimensional (2D) materials spanning 14 crystal structures and 52 elements. The data results from PAW plane wave based one-shot…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-05 Asbjørn Rasmussen , Thorsten Deilmann , Kristian S. Thygesen

Calculating the quasiparticle (QP) band structure of two-dimensional (2D) materials within the GW self-energy approximation has proven to be a rather demanding computational task. The main reason is the strong $\mathbf{q}$-dependence of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-12 Filip A. Rasmussen , Per S. Schmidt , Kirsten T. Winther , Kristian S. Thygesen

We present a comprehensive first-principles study of the electronic structure of 51 semiconducting monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides and -oxides in the 2H and 1T hexagonal phases. The quasiparticle (QP) band structures with…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-10 Filip Anselm Rasmussen , Kristian Sommer Thygesen

Using the recently developed version of the GW method employing the one-site approximation and self-consistent quasiparticle basis set we calculated the electronic structure of 3d and 4d transition metals at experimental atomic volumes. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-08-16 K. D. Belashchenko , V. P. Antropov , N. E. Zein

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

The $GW$ method for calculating quasi-particle energies of solids commonly begin from a DFT Hamiltonian and Kohn-Sham orbitals in a plane wave basis. Screening of the coulomb interaction is implemented using the inverse dielectric function…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-20 Charles H. Patterson

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

Excited-state calculations, notably for quasiparticle band structures, are nowadays routinely performed within the GW approximation for the electronic self-energy. Nevertheless, certain numerical approximations and simplifications are still…

The GW approximation of many-body perturbation theory is an accurate method for computing electron addition and removal energies of molecules and solids. In a canonical implementation, however, its computational cost is $O(N^4)$ in the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Jan Wilhelm , Dorothea Golze , Leopold Talirz , Jürg Hutter , Carlo A. Pignedoli

We implement the GW space-time method at finite temperatures, in which the Green's function G and the screened Coulomb interaction W are represented in the real space on a suitable mesh and in imaginary time in terms of Chebyshev…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-11 Sam Azadi , Arkadiy Davydov , Evgeny Kozik

We present a plane wave implementation of the G0W0 approximation within the projector augmented wave method code GPAW. The computed band gaps of ten bulk semiconductors and insulators deviate on average by 0.2 eV (~ 5 %) from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-10 Falco Hüser , Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

The GW approximation within many-body perturbation theory is the state of the art for computing quasiparticle energies in solids. Typically, Kohn-Sham (KS) eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, obtained from a Density Functional Theory (DFT)…

Transition-metal-based Heusler semiconductors are promising materials for a variety of applications ranging from spintronics to thermoelectricity. Employing the $GW$ approximation within the framework of the FLAPW method, we study the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-01 M. Tas , E. Sasioglu , I. Galanakis , C. Friedrich , S. Blugel

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

GW approximation is one of the most popular parameter-free many-body methods that goes beyond the limitations of the standard density functional theory (DFT) to determine the excitation spectra for moderately correlated materials and in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Kristjan Haule , Subhasish Mandal

Accurate and efficient predictions of the quasiparticle properties of complex materials remain a major challenge due to the convergence issue and the unfavorable scaling of the computational cost with respect to the system size.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-14 Weiyi Xia , Weiwei Gao , Gabriel Lopez-Candales , Yabei Wu , Wei Ren , Wenqing Zhang , Peihong Zhang
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