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The $GW$ approximation has recently gained increasing attention as a viable method for the computation of deep core-level binding energies as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). We present a comprehensive benchmark study of…
Superconducting two-dimensional materials, and in particular few-layer graphene, offer an exciting platform for low-power electronics, yet the origin of their unconventional superconductivity remains an open question. Prevailing theories,…
We present a detailed study of local and non-local correlations in the electronic structure of elemental transition metals carried out by means of the Quasiparticle Self-consistent GW (QSGW ) and Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT). Recent…
We propose a novel approach to quasiparticle GW calculations which does not require the computation of unoccupied electronic states. In our approach the screened Coulomb interaction is evaluated by solving self-consistent linear-response…
A novel approach for GW-based calculations of quasiparticle properties for finite systems is presented, in which the screened interaction is obtained directly from a linear response calculation of the density-density correlation function.…
The GW self-energy method has long been recognized as the gold standard for quasiparticle (QP) calculations of solids in spite of the fact that the neglect of vertex corrections and the use of a DFT starting point lacks rigorous…
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…
Accurate and efficient predictions of the quasiparticle properties of complex materials remain a major challenge due to the convergence issue and the unfavorable scaling of the computational cost with respect to the system size.…
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…
Functionals of the meta-generalized gradient approximation (MGGA) are nowadays widely used in chemistry and solid-state physics for the simulation of electronic systems like molecules, solids, or surfaces. Due to their dependency on the…
The rearrangement of single-particle degrees of freedom of a dilute two-dimensional electron gas in the vicinity of the quantum critical point is examined within a microscopic approach. It is shown that just beyond the critical point, the…
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)…
We study leading-order many-body effects of longitudinal optical (LO) phonons on electronic properties of one-dimensional quantum wire systems. We calculate the quasiparticle properties of a weakly polar one dimensional electron gas in the…
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…
The $GW$ approximation is a well-established method for calculating ionization potentials and electron affinities in solids and molecules. For numerous years, obtaining self-consistent $GW$ total energies in solids has been a challenging…
In some newly discovered materials the ratio of phonon to electron energies is no longer small. We have investigated the basement of the recently proposed gauge-invariant self-consistent method and found conditions of its applicability.
The electronic structure of surfaces and interfaces plays a key role in the properties of quantum devices. Here, we study the electronic structure of realistic Al/InAs/Al heterojunctions using a combination of density functional theory…
The GW approximation in electronic structure theory has become a widespread tool for predicting electronic excitations in chemical compounds and materials. In the realm of theoretical spectroscopy, the GW method provides access to charged…
We combine the single site dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) with the non-local GW method. This is done fully self-consistently and we apply our formalism to a one-band Hubbard model. Eventually at self-consistency the full self-energy and…
We present a detailed calculation of the electronic structure of SrVO$_{3}$ based on the GW+DMFT method. We show that a proper inclusion of the frequency-dependent Hubbard U and the nonlocal self-energy via the GW approximation, as well as…