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We demonstrate that coupled-cluster singles-and-doubles Greens function (GFCCSD) method is a powerful and prominent tool drawing the electronic band structures and the total energies, which many theoretical techniques struggle to reproduce. We have calculated single-electron energy spectra via GFCCSD method for various kinds of systems, ranging from ionic to covalent and van der Waals, for the first time: one-dimensional LiH chain, one-dimensional C chain, and one-dimensional Be chain. We have found that the band gap becomes narrower than in HF due to the correlation effect. We also show that the band structures obtained from GFCCSD method include both quasiparticle and satellite peaks successfully. Besides, taking one-dimensional LiH as an example, we discuss the validity of restricting the active space to suppress the computational cost of GFCCSD method while maintaining the accuracy. We show that the calculated results without bands that do not contribute to the chemical bonds are in good agreement with full-band calculations. With GFCCSD method, we can calculate the total energy and band structures with high precision.
In this study, we have calculated single-electron energy spectra via the Greens function based on the coupled-cluster singles and doubles (GFCCSD) method for isolated atoms from H to Ne. In order to check the accuracy of the GFCCSD method, we compared the results with the exact ones calculated from the full-configuration interaction (FCI). Consequently, we have found that the GFCCSD method reproduces not only the correct quasiparticle peaks but also satellite ones by comparing the exact spectra with the 6-31G basis set. It is also found that open-shell atoms such as C atom exhibit Mott gaps at the Fermi level, which the exact density-functional theory (DFT) fails to describe. The GFCCSD successfully reproduces the Mott HOMO-LUMO (highest-occupied molecular orbital and lowest-unoccupied molecular orbital) gaps even quantitatively. We also discussed the origin of satellite peaks as shake-up effects by checking the components of wave function of the satellite peaks. The GFCCSD is a novel cutting edge to investigate the electronic states in detail.
Coupled cluster Greens function (CCGF) approach has drawn much attention in recent years for targeting the molecular and material electronic structure problems from a many-body perspective in a systematically improvable way. Here, we will present a brief review of the history of how the Greens function method evolved with the wavefunction, early and recent development of CCGF theory, and more recently scalable CCGF software development. We will highlight some of the recent applications of CCGF approach and propose some potential applications that would emerge in the near future.
Within the self-energy embedding theory (SEET) framework, we study coupled cluster Greens function (GFCC) method in two different contexts: as a method to treat either the system or environment present in the embedding construction. Our study reveals that when GFCC is used to treat the environment we do not see improvement in total energies in comparison to the coupled cluster method itself. To rationalize this puzzling result, we analyze the performance of GFCC as an impurity solver with a series of transition metal oxides. These studies shed light on strength and weaknesses of such a solver and demonstrate that such a solver gives very accurate results when the size of the impurity is small. We investigate if it is possible to achieve a systematic accuracy of the embedding solution when we increase the size of the impurity problem. We found that in such a case, the performance of the solver worsens, both in terms of finding the ground state solution of the impurity problem as well as the self-energies produced. We concluded that increasing the rank of GFCC solver is necessary to be able to enlarge impurity problems and achieve a reliable accuracy. We also have shown that natural orbitals from weakly correlated perturbative methods are better suited than symmetrized atomic orbitals (SAO) when the total energy of the system is the target quantity.
We use an analytical model to describe the magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy (MAE) in solids as a function of band filling. The MAE is evaluated in second-order perturbation theory, which makes it possible to decompose the MAE into a sum of transitions between occupied and unoccupied pairs. The model enables us to characterize the MAE as a sum of contributions from different, often competing terms. The nitridometalates Li$_{2}$[(Li$_{1-x}$T$_{x}$)N], with $T$=Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, provide a system where the model is very effective because atomic like orbital characters are preserved and the decomposition is fairly clean. Model results are also compared against MAE evaluated directly from first-principles calculations for this system. Good qualitative agreement is found.
We investigate the performance of Greens function coupled cluster singles and doubles (CCSD) method as a solver for Greens function embedding methods. To develop an efficient CC solver, we construct the one-particle Greens function from the coupled cluster (CC) wave function based on a non-hermitian Lanczos algorithm. The major advantage of this method is that its scaling does not depend on the number of frequency points. We have tested the applicability of the CC Greens function solver in the weakly to strongly correlated regimes by employing it for a half-filled 1D Hubbard model projected onto a single site impurity problem and a half-filled 2D Hubbard model projected onto a 4-site impurity problem. For the 1D Hubbard model, for all interaction strengths, we observe an excellent agreement with the full configuration interaction (FCI) technique, both for the self-energy and spectral function. For the 2D Hubbard, we have employed an open-shell version of the current implementation and observed some discrepancies from FCI in the strongly correlated regime. Finally, on an example of a small ammonia cluster, we analyze the performance of the Greens function CCSD solver within the self-energy embedding theory (SEET) with Hartee-Fock (HF) and Greens function second order (GF2) for the treatment of the environment.