We present an algorithm for the adaptive tetrahedral integration over the Brillouin zone of crystalline materials, and apply it to compute the optical conductivity, dc conductivity, and thermopower. For these quantities, whose contributions are often localized in small portions of the Brillouin zone, adaptive integration is especially relevant. Our implementation, the woptic package, is tied into the wien2wannier framework and allows including a many-body self energy, e.g. from dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). Wannier functions and dipole matrix elements are computed with the DFT package Wien2k and Wannier90. For illustration, we show DFT results for fcc-Al and DMFT results for the correlated metal SrVO3.
@article{arxiv.1507.04881,
title = {Woptic: optical conductivity with Wannier functions and adaptive k-mesh refinement},
author = {E. Assmann and P. Wissgott and J. Kuneš and A. Toschi and P. Blaha and K. Held},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.04881},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
14 pages, 10 figures. Changes from v1: corrected prefactor of optical conductivity; minor changes for readability