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Title: Exploring connections between statistical mechanics and Green’s functions for realistic systems: Temperature dependent electronic entropy and internal energy from a self-consistent second-order Green’s function

Abstract

Including finite-temperature effects from the electronic degrees of freedom in electronic structure calculations of semiconductors and metals is desired; however, in practice it remains exceedingly difficult when using zero-temperature methods, since these methods require an explicit evaluation of multiple excited states in order to account for any finite-temperature effects. Using a Matsubara Green’s function formalism remains a viable alternative, since in this formalism it is easier to include thermal effects and to connect the dynamic quantities such as the self-energy with static thermodynamic quantities such as the Helmholtz energy, entropy, and internal energy. However, despite the promising properties of this formalism, little is known about the multiple solutions of the non-linear equations present in the self-consistent Matsubara formalism and only a few cases involving a full Coulomb Hamiltonian were investigated in the past. Here, to shed some light onto the iterative nature of the Green’s function solutions, we self-consistently evaluate the thermodynamic quantities for a one-dimensional (1D) hydrogen solid at various interatomic separations and temperatures using the self-energy approximated to second-order (GF2). At many points in the phase diagram of this system, multiple phases such as a metal and an insulator exist, and we are able to determine the mostmore » stable phase from the analysis of Helmholtz energies. Additionally, we show the evolution of the spectrum of 1D boron nitride to demonstrate that GF2 is capable of qualitatively describing the temperature effects influencing the size of the band gap.« less

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  1. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
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Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1535288
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1333351; OSTI ID: 1843756
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0010381; ER16391
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Chemical Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 145; Journal Issue: 20; Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; chemistry; physics

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Welden, Alicia Rae, Rusakov, Alexander A., and Zgid, Dominika. Exploring connections between statistical mechanics and Green’s functions for realistic systems: Temperature dependent electronic entropy and internal energy from a self-consistent second-order Green’s function. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4967449.
Welden, Alicia Rae, Rusakov, Alexander A., & Zgid, Dominika. Exploring connections between statistical mechanics and Green’s functions for realistic systems: Temperature dependent electronic entropy and internal energy from a self-consistent second-order Green’s function. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4967449
Welden, Alicia Rae, Rusakov, Alexander A., and Zgid, Dominika. Mon . "Exploring connections between statistical mechanics and Green’s functions for realistic systems: Temperature dependent electronic entropy and internal energy from a self-consistent second-order Green’s function". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4967449. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1535288.
@article{osti_1535288,
title = {Exploring connections between statistical mechanics and Green’s functions for realistic systems: Temperature dependent electronic entropy and internal energy from a self-consistent second-order Green’s function},
author = {Welden, Alicia Rae and Rusakov, Alexander A. and Zgid, Dominika},
abstractNote = {Including finite-temperature effects from the electronic degrees of freedom in electronic structure calculations of semiconductors and metals is desired; however, in practice it remains exceedingly difficult when using zero-temperature methods, since these methods require an explicit evaluation of multiple excited states in order to account for any finite-temperature effects. Using a Matsubara Green’s function formalism remains a viable alternative, since in this formalism it is easier to include thermal effects and to connect the dynamic quantities such as the self-energy with static thermodynamic quantities such as the Helmholtz energy, entropy, and internal energy. However, despite the promising properties of this formalism, little is known about the multiple solutions of the non-linear equations present in the self-consistent Matsubara formalism and only a few cases involving a full Coulomb Hamiltonian were investigated in the past. Here, to shed some light onto the iterative nature of the Green’s function solutions, we self-consistently evaluate the thermodynamic quantities for a one-dimensional (1D) hydrogen solid at various interatomic separations and temperatures using the self-energy approximated to second-order (GF2). At many points in the phase diagram of this system, multiple phases such as a metal and an insulator exist, and we are able to determine the most stable phase from the analysis of Helmholtz energies. Additionally, we show the evolution of the spectrum of 1D boron nitride to demonstrate that GF2 is capable of qualitatively describing the temperature effects influencing the size of the band gap.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4967449},
journal = {Journal of Chemical Physics},
number = 20,
volume = 145,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Nov 28 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Mon Nov 28 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}

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