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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

A new implementation of the GW approximation (GWA) based on the all-electron Projector-Augmented-Wave method (PAW) is presented, where the screened Coulomb interaction is computed within the Random Phase Approximation (RPA) instead of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Lebègue , B. Arnaud , M. Alouani , P. E. Bloechl

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Minjung Kim , Glenn J. Martyna , Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

We present and benchmark a self-energy approach for quasiparticle energy calculations that goes beyond Hedin's $GW$ approximation by adding the full second-order self-energy (FSOS-$W$) contribution. The FSOS-$W$ diagram involves two…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-18 Yanyong Wang , Patrick Rinke , Xinguo Ren

The $GW$-Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) method is promising for calculating the low-lying excited states of molecular systems. So far, it has only been applied to rather small molecules, and in the commonly implemented diagonal…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Arno Förster , Lucas Visscher

Full-potential electronic structure calculations for periodic systems retain the Coulomb singularity at the nuclei, which induces cusp behavior of the orbitals near the nuclei while leaving the interstitial region smooth. This multiscale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Baowei Lai , Xucheng Meng , Xiaoxu Li

The self-consistent quasiparticle random-phase approximation (QRPA) approach is formulated in the canonical single-nucleon basis of the relativistic Hatree-Fock-Bogoliubov (RHFB) theory. This approach is applied to study the isobaric analog…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-12 Z. M. Niu , Y. F. Niu , H. Z. Liang , W. H. Long , J. Meng

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

Based on an exact functional form derived for the three-point vertex function $\Gamma$, we propose a self-consistent calculation scheme for the electron self-energy with $\Gamma$ always satisfying the Ward identity. This scheme is basically…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-11 Soh Ishii , Hideaki Maebashi , Yasutami Takada

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

A first-principles computational study is presented of various phases of LiAlO$_2$.The $\beta$ and $\gamma$ tetrahedral phases are found to be very close in energy with the $\gamma$ phase having the lowest energy. The octahedral $\alpha$…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-02 Phillip Popp , Walter R. L. Lambrecht

The electronic band structure of SrTiO$_3$ is investigated in the all-electron QS$GW$ approximation. Unlike previous pseudopotential based QS$GW$ or single-shot $G_0W_0$ calculations, the gap is found to be significantly overestimated…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-31 Churna Bhandari , Mark van Schilfgaarde , Takao Kotani , Walter R. L. Lambrecht

Novel results for the self-consistent single-particle spectral function and self-energy are presented for non-degenerate one-component Coulomb systems at various densities and temperatures. The GW^0-method for the dynamical self-energy is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Carsten Fortmann

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

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…

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…

We expand on a recently introduced alternate framework for $GW$ simulation of charged excitations [Scott et. al., J. Chem. Phys., 158, 124102 (2023)], based around the conservation of directly computed spectral moments of the GW…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Oliver J. Backhouse , Marcus K. Allen , Charles C. J. Scott , George H. Booth

Hedin's $GW$ approximation to the electronic self-energy has been impressively successful to calculate quasiparticle energies, such as ionization potentials, electron affinities, or electronic band structures. The success of this fairly…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Arno Förster , Fabien Bruneval

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)…

We present a new all-electron, augmented-wave implementation of the GW approximation using eigenfunctions generated by a recent variant of the full-potential LMTO method. The dynamically screened Coulomb interaction W is expanded in a mixed…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Takao Kotani , Mark van Schilfgaarde