Achievement

Physics trainee David Strubbe developed new calculation software called BerkeleyGW, http://www.berkeleygw.org/ , which is a massively parallel computational package for electron excited-state properties that is based on the many-body perturbation theory employing the ab initio GW and GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation methodology. It can be used in conjunction with many density-functional theory codes for ground-state properties. The software calculates the electronic and optical properties of a wide variety of material systems from bulk semiconductors and metals to nanostructured materials and molecules. The program scales to 10,000's of CPUs and can be used to study systems containing up to 100's of atoms.