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Stefan Riemelmoser1, Merzuk Kaltak2, Georg Kresse1
1Faculty of Physics and Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Vienna, Kolingasse 14-16, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
Abstract:
The optimized effective potential (OEP) method presents an unambiguous way to construct the Kohn-Sham potential corresponding to a given diagrammatic approximation for the exchange-correlation functional. The OEP from the random-phase approximation (RPA) has played an important role ever since the conception of the OEP formalism. However, the solution of the OEP equation is computationally fairly expensive and has to be done in a self-consistent way. So far, large scale solid state applications have, therefore, been performed only using the quasiparticle approximation (QPA), neglecting certain dynamical screening effects. We obtain the exact RPA-OEP for 15 semiconductors and insulators by direct solution of the linearized Sham-Schlüter equation. We investigate the accuracy of the QPA on Kohn-Sham bandgaps and dielectric constants, and comment on the issue of self-consistency.
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