The coupled cluster method (CCM) is a powerful and widely applied technique of modern-day quantum many-body theory. It has been used with great success in order to understand the properties of quantum magnets at zero temperature. This is due largely to the application of computational techniques that allow the method to be applied to high orders of approximation using localised approximation schemes, e.g., such as the LSUB
m scheme. In this article, the high-order CCM formalism for the ground and excited states of quantum magnetic systems are extended to those with spin quantum number
s≥21. Solution strategies for the ket- and bra-state equations are also considered. Aspects of extrapolation of CCM expectation values are discussed and future topics regarding extrapolations are presented.
We present an efficient implementation of the coupled-cluster Green’s function (CCGF) method for simulating photoemission spectra of periodic systems. We formulate the periodic CCGF approach with Brillouin zone sampling in the Gaussian basis at the coupled-cluster singles and doubles (CCSD) level. To enable CCGF calculations of realistic solids, we propose an active-space self-energy correction scheme by combining CCGF with the cheaper many-body perturbation theory ( GW ) and implement the model order reduction (MOR) frequency interpolation technique. We find that the active-space self-energy correction and MOR techniques significantly reduce the computational cost of CCGF while maintaining the high accuracy. We apply the developed CCGF approaches to compute spectral properties and band structure of silicon (Si) and zinc oxide (ZnO) crystals using triple-ζ Gaussian basis sets and medium-size k -point sampling and find good agreement with experimental measurements.