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  • Quantum Chemistry
  • Materials Science

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  • Transition-metal systems pose significant computational challenges for accurate electronic structure calculations.
  • Benchmarking quantum chemical methods is crucial for reliable predictions of ionization potentials (IP) and electron attachment (EA) energies.
  • Open-shell 3d transition metals require specialized methods due to their complex electronic configurations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the performance of the GW approximation and equation-of-motion coupled-cluster singles and doubles (EOM-CCSD) for IPs and EAs.
  • To compare these methods against a high-level reference, ΔCCSD(T), for a benchmark set of transition-metal atoms and molecules.
  • To evaluate the computational efficiency and accuracy of G0W0, evGW, and qpGW methods for these systems.

Main Methods:

  • Calculated IPs and EAs using the G0W0 approximation with the PBE0 functional as a starting point.
  • Employed equation-of-motion coupled-cluster singles and doubles (EOM-CCSD) theory.
  • Utilized ΔCCSD(T) as the reference method for benchmarking.

Main Results:

  • G0W0 demonstrated accuracy comparable to higher-level wave function methods, with mean absolute errors of 0.30–0.47 eV.
  • EOM-CCSD showed slightly higher accuracy (0.19–0.33 eV MAE) but was computationally more expensive.
  • Self-consistent GW calculations (evGW, qpGW) did not significantly improve accuracy over G0W0 and increased computational cost.

Conclusions:

  • G0W0 provides a computationally efficient and reliable alternative for calculating IPs and EAs in open-shell 3d transition-metal systems.
  • Both G0W0 and EOM-CCSD methods achieve mean absolute errors below 0.6 eV compared to experimental data.
  • The G0W0 approximation is particularly compelling for large-scale studies of transition-metal materials due to its favorable cost-performance ratio.