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Photoelectron spectra of early $3d-$transition metal dioxide anions,ScO$_{2}^-$, TiO$_{2}^-$, VO$_{2}^-$, CrO$_{2}^-$, MnO$_{2}^-$, are calculatedusing semilocal and hybrid density functional theory (DFT) and many-bodyperturbation theory within the $GW$ approximation using one-shot perturbativeand eigenvalue self-consistent formalisms. Different levels of theory arecompared with each other and with available photoelectron spectra. We show thatone-shot $GW$ with a PBE0 starting point ($G_0W_0$@PBE0) consistently providesvery good agreement for all experimentally measured binding energies (within0.1-0.2 eV or less), which we attribute to the success of PBE0 in mitigatingself-interaction error and providing good quasiparticle wave functions, whichrenders a first-order perturbative $GW$ correction effective. One-shot $GW$calculations with semilocal exchange in the DFT starting point (e.g.$G_0W_0$@PBE) do poorly in predicting electron removal energies by underbindingorbitals with typical errors near 1.5 eV. Higher amounts of exact exchange(e.g. 50%) in the DFT starting point of one-shot $GW$ do not provide very goodagreement with experiment by overbinding orbitals with typical errors near 0.5eV. While not as accurate as $G_0W_0$@PBE0, the $G$-only eigenvalueself-consistent $GW$ scheme with $W$ fixed to the PBE level ($G_nW_0$@PBE)provides a reasonably predictive level of theory (typical errors near 0.3 eV)to describe photoelectron spectra of these $3d-$transition metal dioxideanions. Adding eigenvalue self-consistency also in $W$ ($G_nW_n$@PBE), on theother hand, worsens the agreement with experiment overall. Our findings on theperformance of various $GW$ methods are discussed in the context of ourprevious studies on other transition metal oxide molecular systems.

Photoelectron spectra of early $3d$-transition metal dioxide cluster anions from $GW$ calculations