Are multi-quasiparticle interactions important in molecular ionization?
Are multi-quasiparticle interactions important in molecular ionization?
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10.1063/5.0044060
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2020-09
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Carlos Mejuto-Zaera;Guorong Weng;Mariya Romanova;Stephen J. Cotton;K. B. Whaley;N. Tubman;V. Vlček
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Carlos Mejuto-Zaera;Guorong Weng;Mariya Romanova;Stephen J. Cotton;K. B. Whaley;N. Tubman;V. Vlček
Photo-emission spectroscopy directly probes individual electronic states, ranging from single excitations to high-energy satellites, which simultaneously represent multiple quasiparticles (QPs) and encode information about electronic correlation. The first-principles description of the spectra requires an efficient and accurate treatment of all many-body effects. This is especially challenging for inner valence excitations where the single QP picture breaks down. Here, we provide the full valence spectra of small closed-shell molecules, exploring the independent and interacting quasiparticle regimes, computed with the fully correlated adaptive sampling configuration interaction method. We critically compare these results to calculations with the many-body perturbation theory, based on the GW and vertex corrected GWΓ approaches. The latter explicitly accounts for two-QP quantum interactions, which have often been neglected. We demonstrate that for molecular systems, the vertex correction universally improves the theoretical spectra, and it is crucial for the accurate prediction of QPs as well as capturing the rich satellite structures of high-energy excitations. GWΓ offers a unified description across all relevant energy scales. Our results suggest that the multi-QP regime corresponds to dynamical correlations, which can be described via perturbation theory.