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We propose an algorithm to determine Maximally Localized Wannier Functions (MLWFs). This algorithm, based on recent theoretical developments, does not require any physical input such as initial guesses for the Wannier functions, unlike…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-13 Éric Cancès , Antoine Levitt , Gianluca Panati , Gabriel Stoltz

We present an automatized approach towards maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) applicable to both occupied and unoccupied states. We overcome limitations of the standard optimized projection function (OPF) method and its…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-17 Sebastian Tillack , Claudia Draxl

Maximally localized Wannier functions are the key tool for a variety of physical applications of Bloch states. Here we develop a simple and exact procedure to construct maximally localized Wannier functions for one dimensional periodic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-12 Yuri Lensky , Colin Kennedy

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.…

A robust, user-friendly, and automated method to determine quantum conductance in disordered quasi-one-dimensional systems is presented. The scheme relies upon an initial density- functional theory calculation in a specific geometry after…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Matthew Shelley , Nicolas Poilvert , Arash A Mostofi , Nicola Marzari

Wannier functions provide a localized representation of spectral subspaces of periodic Hamiltonians, and play an important role for interpreting and accelerating Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations in quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 Anil Damle , Antoine Levitt , Lin Lin

Maximally-localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) are widely employed as an essential tool for calculating the physical properties of materials due to their localized nature and computational efficiency. Projectability-disentangled Wannier…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-25 Yuhao Jiang , Junfeng Qiao , Nataliya Paulish , Weisheng Zhao , Nicola Marzari , Giovanni Pizzi

We present a general method of constructing maximally localized Wannier functions. It consists of three steps: (1) picking a localized trial wave function, (2) performing a full band projection, and (3) orthonormalizing with the Lowdin…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-11 Junbo Zhu , Zhu Chen , Biao Wu

We have calculated the maximally-localized Wannier functions of MnO in its antiferromagnetic (AFM) rhombohedral unit cell, which contains two formula units. Electron Bloch functions are obtained with the linearized augmented plane-wave…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Michel Posternak , Alfonso Baldereschi , Sandro Massidda , Nicola Marzari

We consider the applicability of phase space Wannier functions" to electronic structure calculations. These generalized Wannier functions are analogous to localized plane waves and constitute a complete, orthonormal set which is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-22 D. J. Sullivan , J. J. Rehr , J. W. Wilkins , K. G. Wilson

We introduce a maximally-localized Wannier function representation of Bloch excitons, two-particle correlated electron-hole excitations, in crystalline solids, where the excitons are maximally-localized with respect to an average…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-08 Jonah B. Haber , Diana Y. Qiu , Felipe H. da Jornada , Jeffrey B. Neaton

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

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

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 present two modules that expand functionalities of the all-electron full-potential density functional theory package WIEN2k for computation of the Chern and $Z_2$ topological invariants. Characterization of topological properties relies…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-28 Andres F. Gomez-Bastidas , Oleg Rubel

Localized Wannier functions provide an efficient and intuitive means by which to compute dielectric properties from first principles. They are most commonly constructed in a post-processing step, following total-energy minimization.…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-16 David D. O'Regan , Mike C. Payne , Arash A. Mostofi

We discuss a method for constructing generalized Wannier functions that are maximally localized at the minima of a one-dimensional periodic potential with a double-well per unit cell. By following the approach of (Marzari M and Vanderbilt D…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-04 Michele Modugno , Giulio Pettini

The electronic ground state of a periodic system is usually described in terms of extended Bloch orbitals, but an alternative representation in terms of localized "Wannier functions" was introduced by Gregory Wannier in 1937. The connection…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-28 Nicola Marzari , Arash A. Mostofi , Jonathan R. Yates , Ivo Souza , David Vanderbilt

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 introduce a new type of Wannier functions (WFs) obtained by minimizing the conventional spread functional with a penalty term proportional to the variance of the spread distribution. This modified Wannierisation scheme is less prone to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-09 Pietro F. Fontana , Ask H. Larsen , Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen