Abstract (eng)
The GW approximation is a method for ab initio simulations of many-electron systems, based on the formal framework of the Green's function formalism and on Hedin's equations. It goes beyond mean field methods such as the Hartree-Fock approximation (HF) and density functional theory (DFT) and constitutes an improvement for calculating excitation spectra and band structures. GW calculations can be done with different levels of self-consistency, leading to the non-self-consistent G0W0 method, the partially self-consistent GW0 method and the fully self-consistent GW method.
In this thesis, fully self-consistent GW calculations were carried out for a number of solid-state systems using the Vienna Ab Initio Simulation Package (VASP). All of the systems used were gapped systems, i.e. semiconductors or insultators. The results are compared to G0W0 and quasiparticle GW (QPGW) calculations.
Furthermore, this thesis also deals with two specific problems in the implementation of GW calculations. The first of these is the problem of the calculation of the so-called head of the dielectric matrix, which arises because of the singularity of the Coulomb kernel in reciprocal space. This was solved using a fit based on data close to the singularity. The second was the problem of analytic continuation of the the self-energy Σ from the imaginary axis to the real axis. This was solved by using Padé fitting.