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Ultra-generalized Wannier bases: Are they relevant to topological transport?

Mathematical Physics 2023-12-06 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics math.MP

Abstract

We generalize Prodan's construction of radially localized generalized Wannier bases [E. Prodan, On the generalized Wannier functions. J. Math. Phys. 56(11), 113511 (2015)] to gapped quantum systems without time-reversal symmetry, including in particular magnetic Schr\"odinger operators, and we prove some basic properties of such bases. We investigate whether this notion might be relevant to topological transport by considering the explicitly solvable case of the Landau operator.

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@article{arxiv.2312.02307,
  title  = {Ultra-generalized Wannier bases: Are they relevant to topological transport?},
  author = {Massimo Moscolari and Gianluca Panati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.02307},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

19 pages, no figures. The text corresponds to the paper published in Journal of Mathematical Physics