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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 88, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.075105
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Funding
- European Research Council Advanced Grant DYNamo [ERC-2010-AdG-267374]
- Grupos Consolidados UPV/EHU del Gobierno Vasco [IT578-13]
- European Commission projects CRONOS [280879-2 CRONOS CP-FP7]
- [2010-21282-C02-01]
- [PIB2010US-00652]
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This paper describes an all-electron implementation of the self-consistent GW (sc-GW) approach-i.e., based on the solution of the Dyson equation-in an all-electron numeric atom-centered orbital basis set. We cast Hedin's equations into a matrix form that is suitable for numerical calculations by means of (i) the resolution-of-identity technique to handle four-center integrals and (ii) a basis representation for the imaginary-frequency dependence of dynamical operators. In contrast to perturbative G(0)W(0), sc-GW provides a consistent framework for ground- and excited-state properties and facilitates an unbiased assessment of the GW approximation. For excited states, we benchmark sc-GW for five molecules relevant for organic photovoltaic applications: thiophene, benzothiazole, 1,2,5-thiadiazole, naphthalene, and tetrathiafulvalene. At self-consistency, the quasiparticle energies are found to be in good agreement with experiment and, on average, more accurate than G(0)W(0) based on Hartree-Fock or density-functional theory with the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof exchange-correlation functional. Based on the Galitskii-Migdal total energy, structural properties are investigated for a set of diatomic molecules. For binding energies, bond lengths, and vibrational frequencies sc-GW and G(0)W(0) achieve a comparable performance, which is, however, not as good as that of exact-exchange plus correlation in the random-phase approximation and its advancement to renormalized second-order perturbation theory. Finally, the improved description of dipole moments for a small set of diatomic molecules demonstrates the quality of the sc-GW ground-state density.
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