The Band-Gap Problem in Semiconductors Revisited: Effects of Core States and Many-Body Self-Consistency

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2002-03-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0203523v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.126401

A novel picture of the quasiparticle (QP) gap in prototype semiconductors Si and Ge emerges from an analysis based on all-electron, self-consistent, GW calculations. The deep-core electrons are shown to play a key role via the exchange diagram --if this effect is neglected, Si becomes a semimetal. Contrary to current lore, the Ge 3d semicore states (e.g., their polarization) have no impact on the GW gap. Self-consistency improves the calculated gaps --a first clear-cut success story for the Baym-Kadanoff method in the study of real-materials spectroscopy; it also has a significant impact on the QP lifetimes. Our results embody a new paradigm for ab initio QP theory.

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