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Relativistic plasma with radiation at thermodynamic equilibrium is ageneral system of interest in astrophysics and high energy physics. We develop a new self-consistent quasi-particle model for such a system to take account of collective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Vishnu M. Bannur

We present algorithmic and implementation details for the fully self-consistent finite-temperature $GW$ method in Gaussian Bloch orbitals for solids. Our implementation is based on the finite-temperature Green's function formalism in which…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-14 Chia-Nan Yeh , Sergei Iskakov , Dominika Zgid , Emanuel Gull

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

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.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 George Pal , Yaroslav Pavlyukh , Hans Christian Schneider , Wolfgang Huebner

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

We propose a framework to construct the ground-state energy and density matrix of an N-electron system by solving selfconsistently a set of single-particle equations. The method can be viewed as a non-trivial extension of the Kohn-Sham…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Van Neck , S. Verdonck , G. Bonny , P. W. Ayers , M. Waroquier

Chu et al. recently reported extensive results of local density approximation (LDA) and of four (4) different Green function and dressed Coulomb (GW) approximation calculations of electronic properties of several semiconductors and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-18 Diola Bagayoko , Yacouba Issa Diakite , Lashounda Franklin

Excited-state calculations, notably for quasiparticle band structures, are nowadays routinely performed within the GW approximation for the electronic self-energy. Nevertheless, certain numerical approximations and simplifications are still…

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

The many-body perturbation theory within the $GW$ approximation is a widely used method for describing the electronic band structures in real materials. Its application to large-scale systems is, however, impeded by its high computational…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 Min-Ye Zhang , Peize Lin , Rong Shi , Xinguo Ren

Although the GW approximation is recognized as one of the most accurate theories for predicting materials excited states properties, scaling up conventional GW calculations for large systems remains a major challenge. We present a powerful…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Weiwei Gao , Weiyi Xia , Xiang Gao , Peihong Zhang

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

We present a comparative full-potential study of generalized Kohn-Sham schemes (gKS) with explicit focus on their suitability as starting point for the solution of the quasiparticle equation. We compare $G_0W_0$ quasiparticle band…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-05-06 F. Fuchs , J. Furthmüller , F. Bechstedt , M. Shishkin , G. Kresse

Using the quasiparticle self-consistent GW (QSGW) and local-density (LD) approximations, we calculate the q-dependent static dielectric function, and derive an effective 2D dielectric function corresponding to screening of point charges. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. van Schilfgaarde , M. I. Katsnelson

We present first-principles calculations of the impact ionization rate (IIR) in the $GW$ approximation ($GW$A) for semiconductors. The IIR is calculated from the quasiparticle (QP) width in the $GW$A, since it can be identified as the decay…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Takao Kotani , Mark van Schilfgaarde

Band structures for solid rare gases (Ne, Ar) have been calculated using the GW approximation. All electron and pseudopotential ab initio calculations were performed using Gaussian orbital basis sets and the dependence of particle-hole gaps…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 S. Galamić-Mulaomerović , C. H. Patterson

We report on the importance of GW self-energy corrections for the electronic structure of light actinides in the weak-to-intermediate coupling regime. Our study is based on calculations of the band structure and total density of states of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-15 Towfiq Ahmed , R. C. Albers , A. V. Balatsky , C. Friedrich , Jian-Xin Zhu

We present a Kernel Ridge Regression (KRR) based supervised learning method combined with Genetic Algorithms (GAs) for the calculation of quasiparticle energies within Many-Body Green's Functions Theory. These energies representing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Gianluca Tirimbó , Onur Çaylak , Björn Baumeier

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 report extensive calculations of the imaginary part of the electron self-energy in the vicinity of the (100) and (111) surfaces of Cu. The quasiparticle self-energy is computed by going beyond a free-electron description of the metal…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Sarria , J. Osma , E. V. Chulkov , J. M. Pitarke , P. M. Echenique