Publication date: Jan 09, 2020
Koopmans-compliant (KC) functionals have been shown to provide accurate spectral properties through a generalized condition of piecewise linearity of the total energy as a function of the fractional addition/removal of an electron to/from any orbital. We analyze the performance of different KC functionals on a large and standardized set of 100 molecules, the GW100 test set, comparing vertical ionization potentials (taken as opposite of the orbital energies) to those obtained from accurate quantum chemistry methods, and to experimental results. We find excellent agreement, with a mean absolute error of 0.20 eV for the KIPZ functional on the first ionization potential, which is state-of-the-art for both density functional theory (DFT)-based calculations and many-body perturbation theory. We highlight similarities and differences between KC functionals and other electronic-structure approaches, such as dielectric-dependent hybrid functionals and Green’s function methods, both from a theoretical and from a practical point of view, arguing that KC potentials can be considered as local and orbital-dependent approximations to the electronic self-energy, already including approximate vertex corrections.
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2020.0004/v1 (version v1) [This version] | Jan 09, 2020 | DOI10.24435/materialscloud:2020.0004/v1 |