Electronic structure of LaNiO and CaCuO from self consistent vertex corrected GW approach
arXiv:2105.03770 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.104.085109
Abstract
Electronic structure of one of the nickelates (LaNiO) and one of the cuprates (CaCuO) is studied with three self consistent GW-based methods: scGW, sc(GW+Vertex), and quasiparticle self-consistent GW. Low energy features obtained in our study are in many respects similar to the features reported in previous DFT+DMFT studies. Consistent with the DFT+DMFT conclusion, we find LaNiO as more correlated than CaCuO. However, correlation effects included in our study change the DFT Fermi surface near the point differently than it was reported in the DMFT studies. Features which are a few electron-volts away from the Fermi level are broader in our calculations than in the DFT+DMFT which reflects the differences between the DFT and the GW methods. Our results are in qualitative agreement with previous G0W0 results, but the self-consistency brings in the quantitative differences. Generally, correlation effects are found to be sufficiently weak in both materials which allows one to use totally ab-initio diagrammatic approaches like sc(GW+Vertex) and to avoid the methods with adjustable parameters (DFT+U or DFT+DMFT). However, the possibility of some strong correlations at low energy which cannot be captured by perturbative methods cannot be completely excluded. For instance, differences in the Fermi surface should be resolved: experimental studies are necessary.
11 pages, 10 figures
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