Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2010-01-08
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
10 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
We calculate single-particle excitation energies for a series of 33 molecules using fully selfconsistent GW, one-shot G$_0$W$_0$, Hartree-Fock (HF), and hybrid density functional theory (DFT). All calculations are performed within the projector augmented wave (PAW) method using a basis set of Wannier functions augmented by numerical atomic orbitals. The GW self-energy is calculated on the real frequency axis including its full frequency dependence and off-diagonal matrix elements. The mean absolute error of the ionization potential (IP) with respect to experiment is found to be 4.4, 2.6, 0.8, 0.4, and 0.5 eV for DFT-PBE, DFT-PBE0, HF, G$_0$W$_0$[HF], and selfconsistent GW, respectively. This shows that although electronic screening is weak in molecular systems its inclusion at the GW level reduces the error in the IP by up to 50% relative to unscreened HF. In general GW overscreens the HF energies leading to underestimation of the IPs. The best IPs are obtained from one-shot G$_0$W$_0$ calculations based on HF since this reduces the overscreening. Finally, we find that the inclusion of core-valence exchange is important and can affect the excitation energies by as much as 1 eV.
Jacobsen Karsten W.
Rostgaard Carsten
Thygesen Kristian S.
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