Quantitative Molecular Orbital Energies within a $G_0W_0$ Approximation

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2012-04-02

arxiv.org/abs/1204.0509v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

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Using many-body perturbation theory within the $G_0W_0$ approximation, we explore routes for computing the ionization potential (IP), electron affinity (EA), and fundamental gap of three gas-phase molecules -- benzene, thiophene, and (1,4) diamino-benzene -- and compare with experiments. We examine the dependence of the IP on the number of unoccupied states used to build the dielectric function and the self energy, as well as the dielectric function plane-wave cutoff. We find that with an effective completion strategy for approximating the unoccupied subspace, and a converged dielectric function kinetic energy cutoff, the computed IPs and EAs are in excellent quantitative agreement with available experiment (within 0.2 eV), indicating that a one-shot $G_0W_0$ approach can be very accurate for calculating addition/removal energies of small organic molecules. Our results indicate that a sufficient dielectric function kinetic energy cutoff may be the limiting step for a wide application of $G_0W_0$ to larger organic systems.

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