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Using the newly developed VASP2WANNIER90 interface we have constructed maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) for the e_g states of the prototypical Jahn-Teller magnetic perovskite LaMnO3 at different levels of approximation for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 C. Franchini , R. Kovacik , M. Marsman , S. Sathyanarayana Murthy , J. He , C. Ederer , G. Kresse

We investigate the quasiparticle band structure of anatase TiO2, a wide gap semiconductor widely employed in photovoltaics and photocatalysis. We obtain GW quasiparticle energies starting from density-functional theory (DFT) calculations…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-04-23 Christopher E. Patrick , Feliciano Giustino

Motivated by the observation of polarization superlattices in twisted multilayers of hexagonal boron nitride ($h$-BN), we address the possibility of using these heterostructures for tailoring the properties of multilayer graphene by means…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Marta Brzezińska , Oleg V. Yazyev

A new method for calculation of band structure has been proposed based on the Green's function theory and local sampling. Potential energy in the Hamiltonian of Schrodinger's equation is approximated with a series of sampled Dirac delta…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-24 Milad Khoshnegar , Sina Khorasani , Amirhossein Hosseinnia

Wannier interpolation is a powerful tool for performing Brillouin zone integrals over dense grids of $\mathbf{k}$ points, which are essential to evaluate such quantities as the intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity or Boltzmann transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-22 Stepan S. Tsirkin

Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals ferroelectrics are recognized for enabling many applications, from memory and logic to neuromorphic computing, as well as transforming other materials to control electronic phase transitions and…

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 E. Assmann , P. Wissgott , J. Kuneš , A. Toschi , P. Blaha , K. Held

A new cumulant-based $GW$ approximation for the retarded one-particle Green's function is proposed, motivated by an exact relation between the improper Dyson self-energy and the cumulant generating function. Qualitative aspects of this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-21 Matthew Z. Mayers , Mark S. Hybertsen , David R. Reichman

Wigner functions play a central role in the phase space formulation of quantum mechanics. Although closely related to classical Liouville densities, Wigner functions are not positive definite and may take negative values on subregions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. G. Wood , A. J. Bracken

We present GW many-body results for ground-state properties of two simple but very distinct families of inhomogenous systems in which traditional implementations of density-functional theory (DFT) fail drastically. The GW approach gives…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Garcia-Gonzalez , R. W. Godby

We investigate the bulk band structures and the surface states of Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3 topological insulators using first-principles many-body perturbation theory based on the GW approximation. The quasiparticle self-energy corrections…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-20 Oleg V. Yazyev , Emmanouil Kioupakis , Joel E. Moore , Steven G. Louie

We report an implementation of self-consistent Green's function many-body theory within a second-order approximation (GF2) for application with molecular systems. This is done by iterative solution of the Dyson equation expressed in matrix…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Jordan J. Phillips , Dominika Zgid

We analyze a data set comprising 370 GW band structures composed of 61716 quasiparticle (QP) energies of two-dimensional (2D) materials spanning 14 crystal structures and 52 elements. The data results from PAW plane wave based one-shot…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-05 Asbjørn Rasmussen , Thorsten Deilmann , Kristian S. Thygesen

Construction of maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) has been implemented within the linear combination of pseudo-atomic orbital (LCPAO) method. Detailed analysis using MLWFs is applied to three closely related materials, single…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Hongming Weng , Taisuke Ozaki , Kiyoyuki Terakura

We use maximally localized Wannier functions to construct tight-binding (TB) parameterizations for the e_g bands of LaMnO_3 based on first principles electronic structure calculations. We compare two different ways to represent the relevant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Roman Kovacik , Claude Ederer

Motivated by a large number of recent magnetotransport studies we have revisited the problem of the microscopic calculation of the quasiparticle effective mass in a paramagnetic two-dimensional (2D) electron liquid (EL). Our systematic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Asgari , B. Davoudi , M. Polini , M. P. Tosi , G. F. Giuliani , G. Vignale

The question of which non-interacting Green's function "best" describes an interacting many-body electronic system is both of fundamental interest as well as of practical importance in describing electronic properties of materials in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-01 Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

A new implementation of stochastic many-body perturbation theory for periodic 2D systems is presented. The method is used to compute quasiparticle excitations in twisted bilayer phosphorene. Excitation energies are studied using stochastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Jacob Brooks , Guorong Weng , Stephanie Taylor , Vojtech Vlcek

We develop an effective extended Hubbard model to describe the low-energy electronic properties of the twisted bilayer graphene. By using the Bloch states in the effective continuum model and with the aid of the maximally localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 Mikito Koshino , Noah F. Q. Yuan , Takashi Koretsune , Masayuki Ochi , Kazuhiko Kuroki , Liang Fu

We present algorithmic and implementation details for the fully self-consistent finite-temperature $GW$ method in Gaussian Bloch orbitals for solids. Our implementation is based on the finite-temperature Green's function formalism in which…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-14 Chia-Nan Yeh , Sergei Iskakov , Dominika Zgid , Emanuel Gull