Elimination of unoccupied-state summations in ab initio self-energy calculations for large supercells

TitleElimination of unoccupied-state summations in ab initio self-energy calculations for large supercells
Publication TypePalaiseau Article
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Reining, L (Reprint Author), ECOLE POLYTECH,DECM,DTA,DEA,URA 1380 CNRS,LAB SOLIDES IRRADIES,F-91128 PALAISEAU,FRANCE. UNIV ROMA TOR VERGATA,DIPARTIMENTO FIS,INFM,I-00173 ROME,ITALY. UNIV YORK,DEPT PHYS,YORK YO1 5DD,N YORKSHIRE,ENGLAND.

Reining, L, Onida, G, Godby, RW
PublisherAMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
Year of Publication1997
JournalPhys. Rev. B
Volume56
Type of WorkArticle
Keywordspaper
PaginationR4301-R4304
Abstract

We present a method for the computation of self-energy corrections in large supercells. It eliminates the explicit summation over unoccupied states, and uses an iterative scheme based on an expansion of the Green's function around a set of reference energies. This improves the scaling of the computational time from the fourth to the third power of the number of atoms for both the inverse dielectric matrix and the self-energy, yielding improved efficiency for eight or more silicon atoms per unit cell.

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