TY  - JOUR
A1  - Marom, Noa
A1  - Caruso, Fabio
A1  - Ren, Xinguo
A1  - Hofmann, Oliver T.
A1  - Körzdörfer, Thomas
A1  - Chelikowsky, James R.
A1  - Rubio, Angel
A1  - Scheffler, Matthias
A1  - Rinke, Patrick
T1  - Benchmark of GW methods for azabenzenes
JF  - Physical review : B, Condensed matter and materials physics
N2  - Many-body perturbation theory in the GW approximation is a useful method for describing electronic properties associated with charged excitations. A hierarchy of GW methods exists, starting from non-self-consistent G(0)W(0), through partial self-consistency in the eigenvalues and in the Green's function (scGW(0)), to fully self-consistent GW (scGW). Here, we assess the performance of these methods for benzene, pyridine, and the diazines. The quasiparticle spectra are compared to photoemission spectroscopy (PES) experiments with respect to all measured particle removal energies and the ordering of the frontier orbitals. We find that the accuracy of the calculated spectra does not match the expectations based on their level of self-consistency. In particular, for certain starting points G(0)W(0) and scGW(0) provide spectra in better agreement with the PES than scGW.
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.86.245127
SN  - 1098-0121
VL  - 86
IS  - 24
PB  - American Physical Society
CY  - College Park
ER  -