Spectral properties of the interacting homogeneous electron gas from algorithmic inversion

ORAL

Abstract

Despite its simplicity, the interacting homogeneous electron gas is a paradigmatic test case in the study of the electronic structure of condensed matter. Beside being a model for valence electrons in simple metals, it also provides the fundamental ingredients for
density-functional approximations. Here, we study it with many-body perturbation theory at different GW levels (one shot, partially self-consistent, and fully self-consistent). In order to do so, we introduce a novel numerical implementation of many-body perturbation theory that targets the full-frequency dependence of the Green's function and self-energy. We present results for a broad range of densities, with a special focus on the total energy, the density of states, and the spectral potential.

*We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF -- project number 200021_179138)

Presenters

  • Tommaso Chiarotti

    • Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS), and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Authors

  • Tommaso Chiarotti

    • Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS), and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
  • Nicola Marzari

    • Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
    • Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS), and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
    • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
    • Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS), and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
    • Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS), Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de l’Ingénieur, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
    • THEOS, EPFL
    • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
    • Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS) and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (E
    • Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS), and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Theory and simulation of materials (THEOS), National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), EPFL
    • Materials Engineering, EPFL
    • Theory and Simulations of Materials (THEOS), and National Center for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
  • Andrea Ferretti

    • Centro S3, CNR–Istituto Nanoscienze
    • CNR nano Modena, Italy
    • S3 Modena, CNR-NANO
    • Istituto Nanoscienze, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
    • CNR-Istituto Nanoscienze
    • Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)