Constructing `full-frequency' spectra via moment constraints for coupled cluster Green's functions (2206.13198v2)

Abstract: We propose an approach to build `full-frequency' quasiparticle spectra from conservation of a set of static expectation values. These expectation values define the moments of the spectral distribution, resulting in an efficient and systematically improvable expansion. By computing these initial moment constraints at the coupled-cluster level, we demonstrate convergence in both correlated state-specific and full spectral quantities, while requiring a fraction of the effort of traditional Green's function approaches. Tested across the GW100 benchmark set for charged excitation spectra, we can converge frontier excitations to within the inherent accuracy of the CCSD approximation, whilst obtaining a simultaneous representation of the entire excitation spectrum at all energy scales.