A1 Journal article (refereed)
Dynamically screened vertex correction to GW (2020)
Pavlyukh, Y., Stefanucci, G., & van Leeuwen, R. (2020). Dynamically screened vertex correction to GW. Physical Review B, 102(4), Article 045121. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.045121
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Pavlyukh, Yaroslav; Stefanucci, Gianluca; van Leeuwen, Robert
Journal or series: Physical Review B
ISSN: 2469-9950
eISSN: 2469-9969
Publication year: 2020
Volume: 102
Issue number: 4
Article number: 045121
Publisher: American Physical Society
Publication country: United States
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.045121
Publication open access: Not open
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Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/71363
Web address of parallel published publication (pre-print): https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05344
Abstract
Diagrammatic perturbation theory is a powerful tool for the investigation of interacting many-body systems, the self-energy operator Sigma encoding all the variety of scattering processes. In the simplest scenario of correlated electrons described by the GW approximation for the electron self-energy, a particle transfers a part of its energy to neutral excitations. Higher-order (in screened Coulomb interaction W) self-energy diagrams lead to improved electron spectral functions (SFs) by taking more complicated scattering channels into account and by adding corrections to lower order self-energy terms. However, they also may lead to unphysical negative spectral functions. The resolution of this difficulty has been demonstrated in our previous works. The main idea is to represent the self-energy operator in a Fermi golden rule form which leads to a manifestly positive definite SF and allows for a very efficient numerical algorithm. So far, the method has only been applied to the three-dimensional electron gas, which is a paradigmatic system, but a rather simple one. Here we systematically extend the method to two dimensions including realistic systems such as monolayer and bilayer graphene. We focus on one of the most important vertex function effects involving the exchange of two particles in the final state. We demonstrate that it should be evaluated with the proper screening and discuss its influence on the quasiparticle properties.
Keywords: condensed matter physics; quantum physics; approximation
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- New approaches to quantum many-body theory
- Van Leeuwen, Robertus
- Research Council of Finland
Ministry reporting: Yes
Reporting Year: 2020
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