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P García-González

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PubMed2006

First-principles description of correlation effects in layered materials.

We present a first-principles description of anisotropic materials characterized by having both weak (dispersionlike) and strong covalent bonds, based on the adiabatic-connection fluctuation-dissipation theorem with density functional theory. For hexagonal boron nitride the in-plane and out-of-plane bonding as well as vibrational dynamics are well described both at equilibrium and when the layers are pulled apart. Bonding in covalent and ionic solids is also described. The formalism allows us to ping down the deficiencies of common exchange-correlation functionals and provides insight toward the inclusion of dispersion interactions into the correlation functional.

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PubMed2002

Many-body GW calculations of ground-state properties: quasi-2D electron systems and van der Waals forces.

We present GW many-body results for ground-state properties of two simple but very distinct families of inhomogeneous systems in which traditional implementations of density-functional theory (DFT) fail drastically. The GW approach gives notably better results than the well-known random-phase approximation, at a similar computational cost. These results establish GW as a superior alternative to standard DFT schemes without the expensive numerical effort required by quantum Monte Carlo simulations.

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