The single particle energies obtained in a Kohn-Sham density functional theory(DFT) calculation are generally known to be poor approximations to electron excitation energies that are measured in transport,tunneling an...The single particle energies obtained in a Kohn-Sham density functional theory(DFT) calculation are generally known to be poor approximations to electron excitation energies that are measured in transport,tunneling and spectroscopic experiments such as photo-emission spectroscopy. The correction to these energies can be obtained from the poles of a single particle Green's function derived from a many-body perturbation theory. From a computational perspective, the accuracy and efficiency of such an approach depends on how a self energy term that properly accounts for dynamic screening of electrons is approximated. The G_0W_0 approximation is a widely used technique in which the self energy is expressed as the convolution of a noninteracting Green's function(G_0) and a screened Coulomb interaction(W_0) in the frequency domain. The computational cost associated with such a convolution is high due to the high complexity of evaluating W_0 at multiple frequencies. In this paper, we discuss how the cost of G_0W_0 calculation can be reduced by constructing a low rank approximation to the frequency dependent part of W_0. In particular, we examine the effect of such a low rank approximation on the accuracy of the G_0W_0 approximation. We also discuss how the numerical convolution of G_0 and W_0 can be evaluated efficiently and accurately by using a contour deformation technique with an appropriate choice of the contour.展开更多
基金supported by the SciD AC Program on Excited State Phenomena in Energy Materials funded by the US Department of Energy,Office of Basic Energy Sciences and of Advanced Scientific Computing Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory(Grant No.DE-AC02-05CH11231)the Center for Applied Mathematics for Energy Research Applications funded by US Department of Energy,Office of Science,Advanced Scientific Computing Research and Basic Energy Sciences,the Alfred P.Sloan FellowshipNational Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11171232)
文摘The single particle energies obtained in a Kohn-Sham density functional theory(DFT) calculation are generally known to be poor approximations to electron excitation energies that are measured in transport,tunneling and spectroscopic experiments such as photo-emission spectroscopy. The correction to these energies can be obtained from the poles of a single particle Green's function derived from a many-body perturbation theory. From a computational perspective, the accuracy and efficiency of such an approach depends on how a self energy term that properly accounts for dynamic screening of electrons is approximated. The G_0W_0 approximation is a widely used technique in which the self energy is expressed as the convolution of a noninteracting Green's function(G_0) and a screened Coulomb interaction(W_0) in the frequency domain. The computational cost associated with such a convolution is high due to the high complexity of evaluating W_0 at multiple frequencies. In this paper, we discuss how the cost of G_0W_0 calculation can be reduced by constructing a low rank approximation to the frequency dependent part of W_0. In particular, we examine the effect of such a low rank approximation on the accuracy of the G_0W_0 approximation. We also discuss how the numerical convolution of G_0 and W_0 can be evaluated efficiently and accurately by using a contour deformation technique with an appropriate choice of the contour.
