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Main Authors: Chiarotti, Tommaso, Ferretti, Andrea, Marzari, Nicola
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12193
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author Chiarotti, Tommaso
Ferretti, Andrea
Marzari, Nicola
author_facet Chiarotti, Tommaso
Ferretti, Andrea
Marzari, Nicola
contents Energy functionals of the Green's function can simultaneously provide spectral and thermodynamic properties of interacting electrons' systems. Though powerful in principle, these formulations need to deal with dynamical (frequency-dependent) quantities, increasing the algorithmic and numerical complexity and limiting applications. We first show that, when representing all frequency-dependent propagators as sums over poles, the typical operations of dynamical formulations become closed (i.e., all quantities are expressed as sums over poles) and analytical. Importantly, we map the Dyson equation into a nonlinear eigenvalue problem that can be solved exactly; this is achieved by introducing a fictitious non-interacting system with additional degrees of freedom which shares, upon projection, the same Green's function of the real system. Last, we introduce an approximation to the exchange-correlation part of the Klein functional adopting a localized $GW$ approach; this is a generalization of the static Hubbard extension of density-functional theory with a dynamical screened potential $U(ω)$. We showcase the algorithmic efficiency of the methods, and the physical accuracy of the functional, by computing the spectral, thermodynamic, and vibrational properties of SrVO$_3$, finding results in close agreement with experiments and state-of-the-art methods, at highly reduced computational costs and with a transparent physical interpretation.
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spellingShingle Energies and spectra of solids from the algorithmic inversion of dynamical Hubbard functionals
Chiarotti, Tommaso
Ferretti, Andrea
Marzari, Nicola
Materials Science
Energy functionals of the Green's function can simultaneously provide spectral and thermodynamic properties of interacting electrons' systems. Though powerful in principle, these formulations need to deal with dynamical (frequency-dependent) quantities, increasing the algorithmic and numerical complexity and limiting applications. We first show that, when representing all frequency-dependent propagators as sums over poles, the typical operations of dynamical formulations become closed (i.e., all quantities are expressed as sums over poles) and analytical. Importantly, we map the Dyson equation into a nonlinear eigenvalue problem that can be solved exactly; this is achieved by introducing a fictitious non-interacting system with additional degrees of freedom which shares, upon projection, the same Green's function of the real system. Last, we introduce an approximation to the exchange-correlation part of the Klein functional adopting a localized $GW$ approach; this is a generalization of the static Hubbard extension of density-functional theory with a dynamical screened potential $U(ω)$. We showcase the algorithmic efficiency of the methods, and the physical accuracy of the functional, by computing the spectral, thermodynamic, and vibrational properties of SrVO$_3$, finding results in close agreement with experiments and state-of-the-art methods, at highly reduced computational costs and with a transparent physical interpretation.
title Energies and spectra of solids from the algorithmic inversion of dynamical Hubbard functionals
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12193