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We use an all-electron implementation of the GW approximation to analyze several possible sources of error in the theory and its implementation. Among these are convergence in the polarization and Green's functions, the dependence of QP…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 M. van Schilfgaarde , T. Kotani , S. Faleev

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…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Arno Förster , Erik van Lenthe , Edoardo Spadetto , Lucas Visscher

The GW approximation is widely used for reliable and accurate modeling of single-particle excitations. It also serves as a starting point for many theoretical methods, such as its use in the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) and dynamical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Weiwei Gao , Zhao Tang , Jijun Zhao , James R. Chelikowsky

The $GW$ approximation has become an important tool for predicting charged excitations of isolated molecules and condensed systems. Its popularity can be attributed to many factors, including a favorable scaling and relatively good…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Daniel Mejia-Rodriguez

We present theoretical calculations of quasiparticle energies in closed-shell molecules using the GW method. We compare three different approaches: a full-frequency $G_0W_0$ (FF-$G_0W_0$) method with density functional theory (DFT-PBE) used…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Johannes Lischner , Sahar Sharifzadeh , Jack Deslippe , Jeffrey B. Neaton , Steven G. Louie

The good performance of the GW approximation for band-structure calculations in solids was long taken as a sign that the sum of self-energy diagrams is converged and that all omitted terms are small. However, with modern computational…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Arno Schindlmayr

Calculations of ground-state and excited-state properties of materials have been one of the major goals of condensed matter physics. Ground-state properties of solids have been extensively investigated for several decades within the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 F. Aryasetiawan , O. Gunnarsson

For the computational prediction of core electron binding energies in solids, two distinct kinds of modelling strategies have been pursued: the $\Delta$-Self-Consistent-Field method based on density functional theory (DFT), and the GW…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-12 Juhan Matthias Kahk , Johannes Lischner

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…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Antoine Marie , Abdallah Ammar , Pierre-François Loos

On the basis of the self-consistent calculation scheme for the electron self-energy with the use of the three-point vertex function always satisfying the Ward identity, we find that the obtained quasiparticle dispersion in the normal state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-12 Yasutami Takada

Employing a local formula for the electron-electron interaction energy, we derive a self-consistent approximation for the total energy of a general $N$-electron system. Our scheme works as a local variant of the Thomas-Fermi approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 E. Rasanen , A. Odriazola , I. Makkonen , A. Harju

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

We show how to construct an effective Hamiltonian whose dimension scales linearly with system size, and whose eigenvalues systematically approximate the excitation energies of GW theory. This is achieved by rigorously expanding the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Charles J. C. Scott , Oliver J. Backhouse , George H. Booth

We investigate the performance of the GW approximation by comparison to exact results for small model systems. The role of the chemical potentials in Dyson's equation as well as the consequences of numerical resonance broadening are…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas J. Pollehn , Arno Schindlmayr , R. W. Godby

We introduce a systematic hierarchy of one-body Green's function methods derived from the $GW$ approximation, constructed by progressively reducing the dynamical content of the self-energy. Starting from the fully dynamical Dyson…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Pierre-François Loos , Johannes Tölle

A novel self-consistent implementation of Hedin's GW perturbation theory is introduced. This finite-temperature method uses Hartree-Fock wave functions to represent Green's function. GW equations are solved with full potential linear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrey Kutepov , Sergey Yu. Savrasov , Gabriel Kotliar

We present a nontrivial model system of interacting electrons that can be solved analytically in the GW approximation. We obtain the particle number from the GW Green's function strictly analytically, and prove that there is a genuine…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-03 Arno Schindlmayr

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

For the recent GW100 test set of molecular ionization energies, we present a comprehensive assessment of different GW methodologies: fully self-consistent GW (scGW), quasiparticle self-consistent GW (qsGW), partially self-consistent GW0…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-05-17 Fabio Caruso , Matthias Dauth , Michiel J. van Setten , Patrick Rinke

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