Presented By: Department of Physics
CM-AMO / CM Theory Seminar | Accurate Modeling of Charging Energies in Systems with >10,000 Electrons with StochasticGW
Daniel Neuhauser (UCLA, Deparment of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Stochastic Quantum Chemistry (SQC) is a new paradigm we developed for electronic structure and dynamics, which rewrites traditional quantum chemistry as stochastic averages, avoiding the steep power law scaling of traditional methods. As an example I will discuss Stochastic GW (SGW). The GW technique is known to achieve high accuracy, with only a 0.1-0.3 eV experiment-theory deviation for affinities and ionization energies. SGW reproduces the results of traditional deterministic GW for small systems, but also handles very large systems; as an example, we easily calculated affinities, charging energies, and photoelectron spectroscopy for Si clusters and Si and P platelets with up to 11000 valence electrons, for clusters with 40 thiophene molecules, and for periodic systems with very large supercells. These systems are significantly bigger than any calculable in existing approaches, so that SGW makes a quantum jump in the ability to calculate accurate electronic affinities and potential energies for large molecules. We will specifically discuss recent improvements in the algorithm and implementation which makes SGW superior to traditional techniques already for tetracene, and reduces experiment-theory deviations to ~0.1eV.
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