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We examine the influence of the relativistic effects within the linear augmented plane wave method (LAPW) for solids and propose a few alternative ways to accurately take them into account: (1) we introduce new radial dependencies for LAPW…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-14 A. V. Nikolaev , U. N. Kurelchuk , E. V. Tkalya

In order to increase the accuracy of the linearized augmented plane wave method (LAPW) we present a new approach where the plane wave basis function is augmented by two different atomic radial components constructed at two different…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-10 A. V. Nikolaev , D. Lamoen , B. Partoens

The combination of two-dimensional materials into heterostructures offers new opportunities for the design of optoelectronic devices with tunable properties. However, computing electronic and optical properties of such systems using…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-25 Maximilian Schebek , Ignacio Gonzalez Oliva , Claudia Draxl

This paper investigates the influence of the basis set on the GW self-energy correction in the full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave (LAPW) approach and similar linearized all-electron methods. A systematic improvement is achieved…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Christoph Friedrich , Arno Schindlmayr , Stefan Blügel , Takao Kotani

We present an implementation of the linear density response function within the projector-augmented wave (PAW) method with applications to the linear optical and dielectric properties of both solids, surfaces, and interfaces. The response…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-06-28 Jun Yan , Jens. J. Mortensen , Karsten W. Jacobsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

We devise a mixing algorithm for full-potential (FP) all-electron calculations in the linearized augmented planewave (LAPW) method. Pulay's direct inversion in the iterative subspace is complemented with the Kerker preconditioner and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-21 Jongmin Kim , Andris Gulans , Claudia Draxl

We analyze in detail the error that arises from the linearization in linearized augmented-plane-wave (LAPW) basis functions around predetermined energies $E_l$ and show that it can lead to undesirable dependences of the calculated results…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-19 Gregor Michalicek , Markus Betzinger , Christoph Friedrich , Stefan Blügel

The full-potential linearized augmented-plane wave (FP-LAPW) method is well known to enable most accurate calculations of the electronic structure and magnetic properties of crystals and surfaces. The implementation of atomic forces has…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Max Petersen , Frank Wagner , Lars Hufnagel , Matthias Scheffler , Peter Blaha , Karlheinz Schwarz

We derive formulas for the Coulomb matrix within the full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave (FLAPW) method. The Coulomb matrix is a central ingredient in implementations of many-body perturbation theory, such as the Hartree-Fock and…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-01 Christoph Friedrich , Arno Schindlmayr , Stefan Bluegel

The magneto-optical properties of (Ga,Mn)As have been determined within density functional theory using the highly precise full-potential linear augmented plane wave (FLAPW) method. A detailed investigation of the electronic and magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-30 A. Stroppa , S. Picozzi , A. Continenza , M. Y. Kim , A. J. Freeman

The $GW$ approach of many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) has become a common tool for calculating the electronic structure of materials. However, with increasing number of published results, discrepancies between the values obtained by…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-03 Dmitrii Nabok , Andris Gulans , Claudia Draxl

We used our previously implemented GW approximation (GWA) based on the all-electron full-potential projector augmented wave (PAW) method to study the optical properties of small, medium and large-band-gap semiconductors: Si, GaAs, AlAs,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 B. Arnaud , M. Alouani

In this paper, optical and electronic properties of diamond shaped graphene quantum dots (DQDs) have been studied by employing large-scale electron-correlated calculations. The computations have been performed using the \pi-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-16 Tista Basak , Himanshu Chakraborty , Alok Shukla

We study the temperature-dependent optical properties of gold over a broad energy spectrum covering photon energies below and above the interband threshold. We apply a semi-analytical Drude-Lorentz model with temperature-dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-26 P. D. Ndione , S. T. Weber , D. O. Gericke , B. Rethfeld

A detailed account of the implementation of equations of the Relativistic Density Functional Theory (RDFT) using basis sets of APW/LAPW type with flexible extensions provided by local orbitals is given. Earlier discoveries of the importance…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-07 Andrey L. Kutepov

The electronic and optical parameters of {\gamma}-Al2O3 and {\theta}-Al2O3 have been studied by using the first principle within the framework of density function theory (DFT). The computational approach is based on full-potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-21 Ahmed S. Jbara , Zulkafli Othaman , H. A. Rahnamaye Aliabad , M. A. Saeed

Structural and optoelectronic properties of BaThO3 cubic perovskite are calculated using all electrons full potential linearized augmented plane wave (FP-LAPW) method. Wide and direct band gap, 5.7 eV, of the compound predicts that it can…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-17 G. Murtaza , Iftikhar Ahmad , B. Amin , J. Maqssod , A. Afaq , M. Maqbool , I. Khan , M. Zahid

This paper presents the most complete framework to date for understanding the nonlinear optical trapping of highly absorbing nanoparticles within the dipole regime. Highly absorbing and plasmonic particles garner considerable interest due…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-05 Siavash Mirzaei-Ghormish , Kamran Qaderi , Daniel Smalley

To address ultimate precision in density-functional-theory calculations we employ the full-potential linearized augmented planewave + local-orbital (LAPW+lo) method and justify its usage as a benchmark method. LAPW+lo and two completely…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Andris Gulans , Anton Kozhevnikov , Claudia Draxl

Theoretical spectroscopy is a powerful tool to describe and predict optical properties of materials. While nowadays routinely performed, first-principles calculations only provide bulk dielectric tensors in Cartesian coordinates. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-23 Christian Vorwerk , Caterina Cocchi , Claudia Draxl
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