title: Quartic scaling MP2 for solids: A highly parallelized algorithm in the plane wave basis.
abstract: We present a low-complexity algorithm to calculate the correlation energy of periodic systems in second-order Møller-Plesset (MP2) perturbation theory. In contrast to previous approximation-free MP2 codes, our implementation possesses a quartic scaling, O(N4), with respect to the system size N and offers an almost ideal parallelization efficiency. The general issue that the correlation energy converges slowly with the number of basis functions is eased by an internal basis set extrapolation. The key concept to reduce the scaling is to eliminate all summations over virtual orbitals which can be elegantly achieved in the Laplace transformed MP2 formulation using plane wave basis sets and fast Fourier transforms. Analogously, this approach could allow us to calculate second order screened exchange as well as particle-hole ladder diagrams with a similar low complexity. Hence, the presented method can be considered as a step towards systematically improved correlation energies.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Physics and Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Vienna, Sensengasse 8/12, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Tobias
authors.identifier: 0000000307166516
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schäfer
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Physics and Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Vienna, Sensengasse 8/12, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ramberger
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Physics and Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Vienna, Sensengasse 8/12, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Georg
authors.identifier: 0000000191024259
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kresse