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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 24, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/24/20/202201
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- European Research Council under the European Community [239578]
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We investigate the quasiparticle band structure of anatase TiO2, a wide gap semiconductor widely employed in photovoltaics and photocatalysis. We obtain GW quasiparticle energies starting from density-functional theory (DFT) calculations including Hubbard U corrections. Using a simple iterative procedure we determine the value of the Hubbard parameter yielding a vanishing quasiparticle correction to the fundamental bandgap of anatase TiO2. The bandgap (3.3 eV) calculated using this optimal Hubbard parameter is smaller than the value obtained by applying many-body perturbation theory to standard DFT eigenstates and eigenvalues (3.7 eV). We extend our analysis to the rutile polymorph of TiO2 and reach similar conclusions. Our work highlights the role of the starting non-interacting Hamiltonian in the calculation of GW quasiparticle energies in TiO2 and suggests an optimal Hubbard parameter for future calculations.
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