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Vojtech Vlcek

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arXiv2019

Nonmonotonic band gap evolution in bent phosphorene nanosheets

Nonmonotonic bending-induced changes of fundamental band gaps and quasiparticle energies are observed for realistic nanoscale phosphorene nanosheets. Calculations using stochastic many-body perturbation theory (sGW) show that even slight curvature causes significant changes in the electronic properties. For small bending radii (< 4 nm) the band-gap changes from direct to indirect. The response of phosphorene to deformation is strongly anisotropic (different for zig-zag vs. armchair bending) due to an interplay of exchange and correlation effects. Overall, our results show that fundamental band gaps of phosphorene sheets can be manipulated by as much as 0.7 eV depending on the bending direction.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗

arXiv2017

Quasiparticle spectra from molecules to bulk

A stochastic cumulant GW method is presented, allowing us to map the evolution of photoemission spectra, quasiparticle energies, lifetimes and emergence of collective excitations from molecules to bulk-like systems with up to thousands of valence electrons, including Si nanocrystals and nanoplatelet. The quasiparticle energies rise due to their coupling with collective shake-up (plasmon) excitations, and this coupling leads to significant spectral weight loss (up to 50% for the low energy states), shortening the lifetimes and shifting the spectral features to lower energy by as much as 0.6 eV. Such features are common to all the systems studied irrespective of their size and shape. For small and low dimensional systems the surface plasmon resonances affect the frequency of the collective excitation and position of the satellites.

cond-mat.mes-hall↗

arXiv2017

Stochastic GW calculations for molecules

Quasiparticle (QP) excitations are extremely important for understanding and predicting charge transfer and transport in molecules, nanostructures and extended systems. Since density functional theory (DFT) within the Kohn-Sham (KS) formulation does not provide reliable QP energies, many-body perturbation techniques such as the GW approximation are essential. The main practical drawback of GW implementations is the high computational scaling with system size, prohibiting its use in extended, open boundary systems with many dozens of electrons or more. Recently, a stochastic formulation of GW (sGW) was presented [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 076402 (2014)] with a near-linear-scaling complexity, illustrated for a series of silicon nanocrystals reaching systems of more than 3000 electrons. This advance provides a route for many-body calculations on very larges systems that were impossible with previous approaches. While earlier we have shown the gentle scaling of sGW, its accuracy was not extensively demonstrated. Therefore, we show that this new sGW approach is very accurate by calculating the ionization energies of a group of sufficiently small molecules where a comparison to other GW codes is still possible. Using a set of 10 such molecules, we demonstrate that sGW provides reliable vertical ionization energies in close agreement with benchmark deterministic GW results [J. Chem. Theory Comput, 11, 5665 (2015)], with mean (absolute) deviation of 0.05 and 0.09eV. For completeness, we also provide a detailed review of the sGW theory and numerical implementation.

physics.chem-ph↗