We present a new method for efficient, accurate calculations of many-body properties of periodic systems. The main features are (i) use of a real-space/imaginary-time representation, (ii) avoidance of any model form for the screened interaction W, (iii) exact separation of W and the self-energy P into shortand long-ranged parts, and (iv) the use of novel analytical continuation techniques in the energy domain. The computer time scales approximately linearly with system size. We give results for jellium and silicon, including the spectral function of silicon obtained from the Dyson equation.
ArticleWe present a detailed account of the GW space-time method. The method increases the size of systems whose electronic structure can be studied with a computational implementation of Hedin's GW approximation. At the heart of the method is a representation of the Green's function G and the screened Coulomb interaction W in the real-space and imaginary-time domain, which allows a more efficient computation of the self-energy approximation Σ = iGW . For intermediate steps we freely change between representations in real and reciprocal space on the one hand, and imaginary time and imaginary energy on the other, using fast Fourier transforms. The power of the method is demonstrated using the example of Si with artificially increased unit cell sizes. keywords: electronic structure, quasiparticle energies, selfenergy calculations, GW approximation 71.15. Th,79.60.Jv
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