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Real-time, time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) has gained popularity as a first-principles approach to study a variety of excited-state phenomena such as optical excitations and electronic stopping. Within RT-TDDFT…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-23 Dillon C. Yost , Yi Yao , Yosuke Kanai

We investigate the interplay of band structure topology and localization properties of Wannier functions. To this end, we extend a recently proposed compressed sensing based paradigm for the search for maximally localized Wannier functions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-12 J. C. Budich , J. Eisert , E. J. Bergholtz , S. Diehl , P. Zoller

We propose an improved scheme to construct many-body trial wave functions for fractional Chern insulators (FCI), using one-dimensional localized Wannier basis. The procedure borrows from the original scheme on a continuum cylinder, but is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-30 Yang-Le Wu , N. Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

We discuss a method for determining the optimally-localized set of generalized Wannier functions associated with a set of Bloch bands in a crystalline solid. By ``generalized Wannier functions'' we mean a set of localized orthonormal…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 Nicola Marzari , David Vanderbilt

Wannier functions that are maximally localized help in understanding many properties of crystalline materials. In the absence of topological obstructions, they are at least exponentially localized. In some cases such as flat-band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Pratik Sathe , Fenner Harper , Rahul Roy

We review the formalisms of the self-consistent GW approximation to many-body perturbation theory and of the generation of optimally-localized Wannier functions from groups of energy bands. We show that the quasiparticle Bloch wave…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 D. R. Hamann , David Vanderbilt

We report a $k$-point extension of the second-order co-iterative augmented Hessian (CIAH) algorithm, termed $k$-CIAH, for Pipek-Mezey (PM) localization of Wannier functions (WFs). By exploiting an efficient evaluation of the Hessian-vector…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Gengzhi Yang , Hong-Zhou Ye

Over the last two decades, following the early developments on maximally localized Wannier functions, an ecosystem of electronic-structure simulation techniques and software packages leveraging the Wannier representation has flourished.…

Total energies, electronic structure, surface energies, polarization, potentials and charge densities were studied for slabs of BaTiO_3 using the Linearized Augmented Plane Wave (LAPW) method. The depolarization field inhibits…

mtrl-th · Physics 2008-02-03 Ronald E. Cohen

A standard task in solid state physics and quantum chemistry is the computation of localized molecular orbitals known as Wannier functions. In this manuscript, we propose a new procedure for computing Wannier functions in one-dimensional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Abinand Gopal , Hanwen Zhang

Wannier function expansions are well suited for the description of photonic- crystal-based defect structures, but constructing maximally localized Wannier functions by optimizing the phase degree of freedom of the Bloch modes is crucial for…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-27 Tobias Stollenwerk , Dmitry N. Chigrin , Johann Kroha

We present a study of the construction and spatial properties of localized Wannier orbitals in large supercells of insulating solids using plane waves as the underlying basis. The Pipek-Mezey (PM) functional in combination with intrinsic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Benjamin Wöckinger , Alexander Rumpf , Tobias Schäfer

We use the maximally-localized Wannier function method to study bonding properties in amorphous silicon. This study represents, to our knowledge, the first application of the Wannier-function analysis to a disordered system. Our results…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Pier Luigi Silvestrelli , Nicola Marzari , David Vanderbilt , Michele Parrinello

We present a new scheme to include the van der Waals (vdW) interactions in approximated Density Functional Theory (DFT) by combining the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator model with the Maximally Localized Wannier Function technique. With respect…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Pier Luigi Silvestrelli

EPW (Electron-Phonon coupling using Wannier functions) is a program written in FORTRAN90 for calculating the electron-phonon coupling in periodic systems using density-functional perturbation theory and maximally-localized Wannier…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Jesse Noffsinger , Feliciano Giustino , Brad D. Malone , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie , Marvin L. Cohen

The nontrivial evolution of Wannier functions (WF) for the occupied bands is a good starting point to understand topological insulator. By modifying the definition of WFs from the eigenstates of the projected position operator to those of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-24 Ye Xiong , Peiqing Tong

The problem of construction of the Wannier functions (WFs) in a restricted Hilbert space of eigenstates of the one-electron Hamiltonian $\hat{H}$ (forming the so-called low-energy part of the spectrum) can be formulated in several different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Solovyev , Z. V. Pchelkina , V. I. Anisimov

In the active search for potentially promising candidates for spintronic applications, we focus on the intermetallic ferromagnetic Mn5Ge3 compound and perform accurate first-principles FLAPW calculations within density functional theory.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Picozzi , A. Continenza , A. J. Freeman

We construct a Wannier basis for twisted bilayer graphene that is projected only from the Bloch functions of the twisted bilayer flat bands. The $C_3$ and $C_{2} \mathcal{T}$ symmetries act locally on the Wannier functions while the Wannier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Jiawei Zang , Jie Wang , Antoine Georges , Jennifer Cano , Andrew J. Millis

Phonons are quantized vibrations of a crystal lattice that play a crucial role in understanding many properties of solids. Density functional theory (DFT) provides a state-of-the-art computational approach to lattice vibrations from…