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Pavel Pokhilko1, Chia-Nan Yeh2, Miguel A Morales2
1Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
Abstract:
For molecules and solids, we developed efficient MPI-parallel algorithms for evaluating the second-order exchange (SOX) term with bare, statically screened, and dynamically screened interactions. We employ the resulting term in a fully self-consistent manner together with self-consistent GW (scGW), resulting in the following vertex-corrected scGW schemes: scGWSOX, scGWSOSEX, scGW2SOSEX, and scG3W2 theories. We show that for the vertex evaluation, the reduction of scaling by tensor hypercontraction has two limiting execution regimes. We used the resulting code to perform the largest (by the number of orbitals) fully self-consistent calculations with the SOX term. We demonstrate that our procedure allows for a reliable evaluation of even small energy differences. Utilizing a broken-symmetry approach, we explore the influence of the SOX term on the effective magnetic exchange couplings. We show that the treatment of SOX has a significant impact on the obtained values of the effective exchange constants, which we explain through a self-energy dependence on an effective dielectric constant. We confirm this explanation by analyzing natural orbitals and local changes in charge transfer, quantifying superexchange. Our analysis explains the structure of weak electron correlation responsible for the modulation of superexchange in both molecules and solids. Finally, for solids, we evaluate Néel temperatures utilizing the high-temperature expansion and compare the results obtained with experimental measurements. In addition, we prove a lack of Φ-derivability of the considered theories.
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