Low-Scaling GW with Benchmark Accuracy and Application to Phosphorene Nanosheets

J Wilhelm, P Seewald, D Golze - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2021 - ACS Publications
GW is an accurate method for computing electron addition and removal energies of
molecules and solids. In a conventional GW implementation, however, its computational cost …

Systematic DFT+U and Quantum Monte Carlo Benchmark of Magnetic Two-Dimensional (2D) CrX3 (X = I, Br, Cl, F)

D Wines, K Choudhary, F Tavazza - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The search for two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials has attracted a great deal of
attention because of the experimental synthesis of 2D CrI3, which has a measured Curie …

Electronic band gaps from quantum Monte Carlo methods

Y Yang, V Gorelov, C Pierleoni, DM Ceperley… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We develop a method for calculating the fundamental electronic gap of semiconductors and
insulators using grand canonical quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We discuss the origin of …

Systematic Improvement of Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations in Transition Metal Oxides: sCI-Driven Wavefunction Optimization for Reliable Band Gap Prediction

H Shin, K Gasperich, T Rojas, AT Ngo… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Accurate determination of the electronic properties of correlated oxides remains a significant
challenge for computational theory. Traditional Hubbard-corrected density functional theory …

Benchmarking fundamental gap of Sc2C (OH) 2 MXene by many-body methods

M Dubecký, S Minárik, F Karlický - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Sc 2 C (OH) 2 is a prototypical non-magnetic member of MXenes, a promising transition-
metal-based 2D material family, with a direct bandgap. We provide here a benchmark of its …

theory for phosphorene: Effective -factors, Landau levels, and excitons

PE Faria Junior, M Kurpas, M Gmitra, J Fabian - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Phosphorene, a single layer of black phosphorus, is a direct band gap two-dimensional
semiconductor with promising charge and spin transport properties. The electronic band …

Diffusion quantum Monte Carlo and study of the electronic properties of monolayer and bulk hexagonal boron nitride

RJ Hunt, B Monserrat, V Zólyomi, ND Drummond - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We report diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) and many-body GW calculations of the
electronic band gaps of monolayer and bulk hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). We find the …

Momentum-resolved dielectric response of free-standing mono-, bi-, and trilayer black phosphorus

E Gaufrès, F Fossard, V Gosselin, L Sponza… - Nano Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
Black phosphorus (BP), a 2D semiconducting material of interest in electronics and
photonics, exhibits physical properties characterized by strong anisotropy and band gap …

[HTML][HTML] Fundamental gap of fluorographene by many-body GW and fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo methods

M Dubecký, F Karlický, S Minárik, L Mitas - The Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Fluorographene (FG) is a promising graphene-derived material with a large bandgap.
Currently existing predictions of its fundamental gap (Δ f) and optical gap (Δ opt) significantly …

[HTML][HTML] Excited states in variational Monte Carlo using a penalty method

S Pathak, B Busemeyer, JNB Rodrigues… - The Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In this article, the authors present a technique using variational Monte Carlo to solve for
excited states of electronic systems. This technique is based on enforcing orthogonality to …