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Article: An O(N^3) implementation of Hedin's GW approximation
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ABSTRACT: Organic electronics is a rapidly developing technology. Typically, the molecules involved in organic electronics are made up of hundreds of atoms, prohibiting a theoretical description by wavefunction-based ab-initio methods. Density-functional and Green's function type of methods scale less steeply with the number of atoms. Therefore, they provide a suitable framework for the theory of such large systems. In this contribution, we describe an implementation, for molecules, of Hedin's GW approximation. The latter is the lowest order solution of a set of coupled integral equations for electronic Green's and vertex functions that was found by Lars Hedin half a century ago. Our implementation of Hedin's GW approximation has two distinctive features: i) it uses sets of localized functions to describe the spatial dependence of correlation functions, and ii) it uses spectral functions to treat their frequency dependence. Using these features, we were able to achieve a favorable computational complexity of this approximation. In our implementation, the number of operations grows as N^3 with the number of atoms N.05/2011; -
Article: An O(N^3) implementation of Hedin's GW approximation for molecules
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ABSTRACT: We describe an implementation of Hedin's GW approximation for molecules and clusters, the complexity of which scales as O(N^3) with the number of atoms. Our method is guided by two strategies: i) to respect the locality of the underlying electronic interactions and ii) to avoid the singularities of Green's functions by manipulating, instead, their spectral functions using FFT methods. To take into account the locality of the electronic interactions, we use a local basis of atomic orbitals and, also, a local basis in the space of their products. We further compress the screened Coulomb interaction into a space of lower dimensions for speed and to reduce memory requirements. The improved scaling of our method with respect to most of the published methodologies should facilitate GW calculations for large systems. Our implementation is intended as a step forward towards the goal of predicting, prior to their synthesis, the ionization energies and electron affinities of the large molecules that serve as constituents of organic semiconductors.01/2011; -
Article: A Parallel Iterative Method for Computing Molecular Absorption Spectra
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ABSTRACT: We describe a fast parallel iterative method for computing molecular absorption spectra within TDDFT linear response and using the LCAO method. We use a local basis of "dominant products" to parametrize the space of orbital products that occur in the LCAO approach. In this basis, the dynamical polarizability is computed iteratively within an appropriate Krylov subspace. The iterative procedure uses a a matrix-free GMRES method to determine the (interacting) density response. The resulting code is about one order of magnitude faster than our previous full-matrix method. This acceleration makes the speed of our TDDFT code comparable with codes based on Casida's equation. The implementation of our method uses hybrid MPI and OpenMP parallelization in which load balancing and memory access are optimized. To validate our approach and to establish benchmarks, we compute spectra of large molecules on various types of parallel machines. The methods developed here are fairly general and we believe they will find useful applications in molecular physics/chemistry, even for problems that are beyond TDDFT, such as organic semiconductors, particularly in photovoltaics.05/2010; -
Article: Fast construction of the Kohn--Sham response function for molecules
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ABSTRACT: The use of the LCAO (Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals) method for excited states involves products of orbitals that are known to be linearly dependent. We identify a basis in the space of orbital products that is local for orbitals of finite support and with a residual error that vanishes exponentially with its dimension. As an application of our previously reported technique we compute the Kohn--Sham density response function $\chi_{0}$ for a molecule consisting of $N$ atoms in $N^{2}N_{\omega}$ operations, with $N_{\omega}$ the number of frequency points. We test our construction of $\chi_{0}$ by computing molecular spectra directly from the equations of Petersilka--Gossmann--Gross in $N^{2}N_{\omega}$ operations rather than from Casida's equations which takes $N^{3}$ operations. We consider the good agreement with previously calculated molecular spectra as a validation of our construction of $\chi_{0}$. Ongoing work indicates that our method is well suited for the computation of the GW self-energy $\Sigma=\mathrm{i}GW$ and we expect it to be useful in the analysis of exitonic effects in molecules.10/2009; -
Article: On the Kohn-Sham density response in a localized basis set.
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ABSTRACT: We construct the Kohn-Sham density response function chi(0) in a previously described basis of the space of orbital products. The calculational complexity of our construction is O(N(2)N(omega)) for a molecule of N atoms and in a spectroscopic window of N(omega) frequency points. As a first application, we use chi(0) to calculate the molecular spectra from the Petersilka-Gossmann-Gross equation. With chi(0) as input, we obtain the correct spectra with an extra computational effort that grows also as O(N(2)N(omega)) and, therefore, less steeply in N than the O(N(3)) complexity of solving Casida's equations. Our construction should be useful for the study of excitons in molecular physics and in related areas where chi(0) is a crucial ingredient.The Journal of chemical physics 08/2009; 131(4):044103. · 3.09 Impact Factor -
Article: Extension of LCAO to excited states
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ABSTRACT: We extend the LCAO (Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals) method to excited states by constructing a particularly simple basis in the space of orbital products. The residual error of our procedure vanishes exponentially with the number of products and our procedure avoids auxiliary sets of fitting functions and their intrinsic ambiguities. As an application of our technique, we compute the Kohn--Sham density response function $\chi_{0}$ for a molecule consisting of $N$ atoms in $O(N^{2}N_{\omega })$ operations, with $N_{\omega }$ the number of frequency points. Our construction of $\chi_{0}$ allows us to compute molecular spectra directly from the equations of Petersilka--Gossmann--Gross in $O(N^{2}N_{\omega })$ operations rather than from Casida's equations which takes $O(N^{3})$ operations. Ongoing work indicates that our method is well suited to a computation of the GW self-energy $\Sigma=\mathrm{i}GW$ and we expect a similar situation for the Bethe--Salpeter equation.
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Donostia International Physics Center
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Center of Materials Physics
San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain
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Université Bordeaux 1
Talence, Aquitaine, France
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