Physical review. B, Condensed matter
Self-interaction-corrected density-functional formalism. II. Band structure of the Hubbard-Peierls model
Jacek A. Majewski, P. Vogl
Abstract
A self-consistent scheme is presented to predict excitations energies of highly correlated many-electron systems within the self-interaction-corrected local-spin-density approximation. It is based on the minimization of the self-interaction-free total energy. This method yields a global picture of the excitation energies in the form of an effective wave-vector-resolved band structure for occupied and empty eigenstates which are automatically orthogonal to each other. The theory has been tested for the Hubbard-Peierls model in one and two dimensions. The electron removal energies and fundamental energy gaps are found to be substantially more accurate than in the standard local-density theory.