Publications by Alfredo Pasquarello

Electronic structure of α-MnO2 and β-MnO2 through GW with vertex corrections

Using vertex-corrected quasiparticle self-consistent GW schemes, we address the electronic structure of two manganese dioxide polymorphs, α-MnO2 and β-MnO2. In particular, we determine the fundamental band gaps, macroscopic dielectric constants, magnetic m ...

2025

Mechanism of First Proton‐Coupled Electron Transfer of Water Oxidation at the BiVO4‐Water Interface

Alfredo Pasquarello, Yongbin Zhuang

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) at the BiVO4‐water interface is considered to be the bottleneck of the overall water splitting at this aqueous interface. To provide insight into the mechanism of this reaction, we focus on the first proton‐coupled elect ...

Wiley2025

High-Quality Data Enabling Universality of Band Gap Descriptor and Discovery of Photovoltaic Perovskites

Alfredo Pasquarello, Wei Chen, Haiyuan Wang

Extensive machine-learning-assisted research has been dedicated to predicting band gaps for perovskites, driven by their immense potential in photovoltaics. Yet, the effectiveness is often hampered by the lack of high-quality band gap data sets, particular ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Absolute energy levels of liquid water from many-body perturbation theory with effective vertex corrections

Alfredo Pasquarello, Thomas Bischoff, Aleksei Tal

We demonstrate the importance of addressing the F vertex and thus going beyond the GW approximation for achieving the energy levels of liquid water in manybody perturbation theory. In particular, we consider an effective vertex function in both the polariz ...

National Academy of Sciences2024

Nonempirical semilocal density functionals for correcting the self-interaction of polaronic states

Alfredo Pasquarello, Stefano Falletta

Through the use of the piecewise-linearity condition of the total energy, we correct the self-interaction for the study of polarons by constructing nonempirical functionals at the semilocal level of theory. We consider two functionals, the gamma DFT and mu ...

Aip Publishing2024

Dynamics of the charge transfer to solvent process in aqueous iodide

Alfredo Pasquarello, Majed Chergui, Jinggang Lan

Charge-transfer-to-solvent states in aqueous halides are ideal systems for studying the electron-transfer dynamics to the solvent involving a complex interplay between electronic excitation and solvent polarization. Despite extensive experimental investiga ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Quasiparticle self-consistent GW with effective vertex corrections in the polarizability and the self-energy applied to MnO, FeO, CoO, and NiO

Alfredo Pasquarello

Through quasiparticle self-consistent GW, we investigate the electronic structure of the antiferromagnetic ground state of four transition-metal monoxides: MnO, FeO, CoO, and NiO. In addition to the random-phase approximation, we consider two different sch ...

2024

Migration of hole polarons in anatase and rutile TiO2 through piecewise-linear functionals

Alfredo Pasquarello, Stefano Falletta, Giorgio Palermo

We investigate the migration properties of hole polarons in rutile and anatase TiO2 using Hubbard U semilocal and hybrid functionals with parameters set to enforce the piecewise linearity condition. The polarons in anatase and in rutile are found to be sta ...

2024

First-principles calculations of defects and electron-phonon interactions: Seminal contributions of Audrius Alkauskas to the understanding of recombination processes

Alfredo Pasquarello

First-principles calculations of defects and electron-phonon interactions play a critical role in the design and optimization of materials for electronic and optoelectronic devices. The late Audrius Alkauskas made seminal contributions to developing rigoro ...

Aip Publishing2024

Band alignments through quasiparticle self-consistent GW with efficient vertex corrections

Alfredo Pasquarello, Arnaud Guillaume Lorin

Within many-body perturbation theory, we calculate band offsets for a set of epitaxial interfaces, including AlP/GaP, AlAs/GaAs, Ge/AlAs, Ge/GaAs, Ge/ZnSe, Si/GaP, ZnSe/GaAs, and CaF2/Si. We consider various quasiparticle self-consistent GW schemes with or ...

2023

Range-separated hybrid functionals for accurate prediction of band gaps of extended systems

Alfredo Pasquarello, Stefano Falletta, Jing Yang

In this work, we systematically evaluate the accuracy in band gap prediction of range-separated hybrid functionals on a large set of semiconducting and insulating materials and carry out comparisons with the performance of their global counterparts. We obs ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Polaron hopping through piecewise-linear functionals

Alfredo Pasquarello, Stefano Falletta

We use piecewise-linear functionals to study the polaron energy landscape and hopping rates in beta-Ga2O3, which we adopt as an example of an anisotropic material hosting multiple polaronic states. We illustrate various functionals for polaron localization ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Many-body screening effects in liquid water

Alfredo Pasquarello, Igor Reshetnyak, Arnaud Guillaume Lorin

The screening arising from many-body excitations is a crucial quantity for describing absorption and inelastic X-ray scattering (IXS) of materials. Similarly, the electron screening plays a critical role in state-of-the-art approaches for determining the f ...

Nature Portfolio2023

2023 Roadmap on molecular modelling of electrochemical energy materials

Alfredo Pasquarello, Chunmin Zhang, Assil Bouzid

New materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion are the key to the electrification and sustainable development of our modern societies. Molecular modelling based on the principles of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics as well as em ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2023

Atomic-Level Description of Thermal Fluctuations in Inorganic LeadHalide Perovskites

Alfredo Pasquarello, Majed Chergui, Nicola Colonna, Oliviero Cannelli, Michele Puppin, Ludmila Maria Diniz Leroy

A comprehensive microscopic description of thermally induceddistortions in lead halide perovskites is crucial for their realistic applications, yetstill unclear. Here, we quantify the effects of thermal activation in CsPbBr3nanocrystals across length scale ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

One-Shot Approach for Enforcing Piecewise Linearity on Hybrid Functionals: Application to Band Gap Predictions

Alfredo Pasquarello, Stefano Falletta, Jing Yang

We present an efficient procedure for constructing nonempirical hybrid functionals to accurately predict band gaps of extended systems. We determine mixing parameters by enforcing the generalized Koopmans’ condition on localized electron states, which are ...

2022

Decoupled Structural Responses upon Light and Thermal Functional Activation in CsPbBr3 Perovskites

Alfredo Pasquarello, Majed Chergui, Oliviero Cannelli, Michele Puppin

We combine time-resolved and temperature-dependent X-ray absorption spectroscopy with state-of-the-art first principles simulations to quantify light- and thermally-induced structural distortions in CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals with atomic-level precisi ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

Accurate and efficient band-gap predictions for metal halide perovskites at finite temperature

Alfredo Pasquarello, Patrick Gono, Thomas Bischoff, Aleksei Tal, Haiyuan Wang

We develop a computationally efficient scheme to accurately determine finite-temperature band gaps for metal halide perovskites belonging to the class ABX(3) (A = Rb, Cs; B = Ge, Sn, Pb; and X = F, Cl, Br, I). First, an initial estimate of the band gap is ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Temperature Dependent Properties of the Aqueous Electron

Alfredo Pasquarello, Jinggang Lan

The temperature-dependent properties of the aqueous electron have been extensively studied using mixed quantum-classical simulations in a wide range of thermodynamic conditions based on one-electron pseudopotentials. While the cavity model appears to expla ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2022

Hubbard U through polaronic defect states

Alfredo Pasquarello, Stefano Falletta

Since the preliminary work of Anisimov and co-workers, the Hubbard corrected DFT+U functional has been used for predicting properties of correlated materials by applying on-site effective Coulomb interactions to specific orbitals. However, the determinatio ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022