Quasiparticle energies for large molecules: a tight-binding GW approach

Abstract

We present a tight-binding based GW approach for the calculation of quasiparticle energy levels in confined systems such as molecules. Key quantities in the GW formalism like the microscopic dielectric function or the screened Coulomb interaction are expressed in a minimal basis of spherically averaged atomic orbitals. All necessary integrals are either precalculated or approximated without resorting to empirical data. The method is validated against first principles results for benzene and anthracene, where good agreement is found for levels close to the frontier orbitals. Further, the size dependence of the quasiparticle gap is studied for conformers of the polyacenes ($C_{4n+2}{H}_{2n+4}$) up to n = 30.

10 pages, 5 eps figures submitted to Phys. Rev. A

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