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Combining the Δ-Self-Consistent-Field and GW Methods for Predicting Core Electron Binding Energies in Periodic Solids

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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
卷 19, 期 11, 页码 3276-3283

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00121

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This study examines the formal relationship between two modeling strategies for computing core electron binding energies in solids: the Delta-Self-Consistent-Field method based on density functional theory (DFT) and the GW method. The authors establish a link between these approaches by showing the equivalence, in DFT, between the total energy difference result for the first ionization energy and the eigenvalue of the highest occupied state in an infinite supercell. They introduce a new formalism that highlights how the accuracy of core electron binding energy calculations in DFT depends on the accuracy of the eigenvalue at the valence band maximum in insulators or at the Fermi level in metals. The authors find that incorporating a quasiparticle correction from GW theory, including vertex corrections, improves the accuracy of calculated core electron binding energies.
For the computational prediction of core electron binding energies in solids, two distinct kinds of modeling strategies have been pursued: the Delta-Self-Consistent-Field method based on density functional theory (DFT), and the GW method. In this study, we examine the formal relationship between these two approaches and establish a link between them. The link arises from the equivalence, in DFT, between the total energy difference result for the first ionization energy, and the eigenvalue of the highest occupied state, in the limit of infinite supercell size. This link allows us to introduce a new formalism, which highlights how in DFT-even if the total energy difference method is used to calculate core electron binding energies-the accuracy of the results still implicitly depends on the accuracy of the eigenvalue at the valence band maximum in insulators, or at the Fermi level in metals. We examine whether incorporating a quasiparticle correction for this eigenvalue from GW theory improves the accuracy of the calculated core electron binding energies, and find that the inclusion of vertex corrections is required for achieving quantitative agreement with experiment.

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