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We examine the nature of the collective excitations in a strongly anisotropic system of bosons interacting via Coulomb interaction. Such a system has often been used in the past to model the effects of quantum and classical phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew J. Case , Igor F. Herbut

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,…

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

We present first-principles many-body calculations of the dielectric constant, quasiparticle band structure, and optical absorption spectrum of monolayer MoS$_2$ using a supercell approach. As the separation between the periodically…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-15 Falco Hüser , Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

By recasting the non-linear frequency-dependent $GW$ quasiparticle equation into a linear eigenvalue problem, we explain the appearance of multiple solutions and unphysical discontinuities in various physical quantities computed within the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-16 Enzo Monino , Pierre-François Loos

Coulomb interactions in atomically thin materials are uniquely sensitive to variations in the dielectric screening of the environment, which can be used to control quasiparticles and exotic quantum many-body phases. A static approximation…

Diagrammatic perturbation theory is a powerful tool for the investigation of interacting many-body systems, the self-energy operator $\Sigma$ encoding all the variety of scattering processes. In the simplest scenario of correlated electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-22 Y. Pavlyukh , G. Stefanucci , R. van Leeuwen

The behaviour of a strongly-magnetized collisional electron-positron plasma which is optically thin to cyclotron radiation is considered, and the distribution functions accessible to it on the various timescales in the system are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Daniel Kennedy , Per Helander

We study the unscreened Coulomb interaction in a one-dimensional electron system at low-energy. We use renormalization group methods and a GW approximation, in order to analyze the model. This yields both a strong wavefunction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Bellucci

In the context of photoelectron spectroscopy, the $GW$ approach has developed into the method of choice for computing excitation spectra of weakly correlated bulk systems and their surfaces. To employ the established computational schemes…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-06-20 Christoph Freysoldt , Philipp Eggert , Patrick Rinke , Arno Schindlmayr , Matthias Scheffler

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 evaluate the electronic self-energy Sigma(E) at an Al(111) surface using the GW space-time method. This self-energy automatically includes the image potential V_{im} not present in any local-density approximation for exchange and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 I. D. White , R. W. Godby , M. M. Rieger , R. J. Needs

A new method for finding electronic structure and wavefunctions of electrons in quasiperiodic potential is introduced. To obtain results it uses slightly modified Schrodinger equation in spaces of dimensionality higher than physical space.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-03 Igor V. Blinov

The optical response of quasi-one-dimensional systems is often dominated by tightly bound excitons, that significantly influence their basic electronic properties. Despite their importance for device performance, accurately predicting their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Cesar E. P. Villegas , Alexandre R. Rocha

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

A study is presented of the electronic band structure and optical absorption spectrum of monolayer WSe$_2$ using an all-electron quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ approach, QS$G\hat W$, in which the screened Coulomb interaction $\hat W$ is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-29 Niloufar Dadkhah , Walter R. L. Lambrecht

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

The main objective of the present work is the development of an analytically tractable model of screened electron-electron and electron-exciton interactions in layered systems composed of two parallel semiconductor quantum wells separated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-14 Henni Ouerdane

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 have developed a new type of self-consistent scheme within the $GW$ approximation, which we call quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ (QS$GW$). We have shown that QS$GW$ rather well describes energy bands for a wide-range of materials,…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-10-05 Takao Kotani , Mark van Schilfgaarde , Sergey V. Faleev