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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…
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…
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…
We develop a formalism to calculate the quasi-particle energy within the GW many-body perturbation correction to the density functional theory (DFT). The occupied and virtual orbitals of the Kohn-Sham (KS) Hamiltonian are replaced by…
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…
An efficient low-order scaling method is presented for large-scale electronic structure calculations based on the density functional theory using localized basis functions, which directly computes selected elements of the density matrix by…
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 present an approach for GW calculations of quasiparticle energies with quasi-quadratic scaling by approximating high-energy contributions to the Green's function in its Lehmann representation with effective stochastic vectors. The method…
Block tensor decomposition (BTD) and canonical polyadic decomposition (CPD) are combined into a unified $O(N^3)$-scaling framework for second-order perturbation theory (PT2), demonstrated on MP2 and renormalized PT2 (rPT2). BTD constructs…
Accurate and fast treatment of electron-electron interactions remains a central challenge in electronic structure theory because post-Hartree-Fock methods often suffered from the computational cost for 4-index electron repulsion integrals…
Quasiparticle (QP) excitations are extremely important for understanding and predicting charge transfer and transport in molecules, nanostructures and extended systems. Since density functional theory (DFT) within the Kohn-Sham (KS)…
The particle-particle random phase approximation (pp-RPA) has been shown to be capable of describing double, Rydberg, and charge transfer excitations, for which the conventional time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) might not be…
Simulating the dynamics of charged particles in quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) nanoconfined systems presents a significant computational challenge due to the long-range nature of electrostatic interactions and the geometric anisotropy. To…
The GW method, which can describe accurately electronic excitations, is one of the most widely used ab initio electronic structure technique and allows the physics of both molecular and condensed phase materials to be studied. However, the…
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,…
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…
The $GW$ approximation to many-body perturbation theory is a reliable tool for describing charged electronic excitations, and it has been successfully applied to a wide range of extended systems for several decades using a plane-wave basis.…
The GW method is a many-body electronic structure technique capable of generating accurate quasiparticle properties for realistic systems spanning physics, chemistry, and materials science. Despite its power, GW is not routinely applied to…
We report an all-electron, atomic orbital (AO) based, two-component (2C) implementation of the $GW$ approximation (GWA) for closed-shell molecules. Our algorithm is based on the space-time formulation of the GWA and uses analytical…
We present a many-body $GW$ formalism for quantum subsystems embedded in discrete polarizable environments containing up to several hundred thousand atoms described at a fully ab initio random phase approximation level. Our approach is…