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The location of electrons governs phenomena ranging from chemical bonding and electric polarization to the topological classification of band insulators and the emergence of correlated states in quantum matter. While a prescription exists…
Optimal tuning of functional parameters in density functional theory approximations, based on enforcing the ionization potential theorem, has emerged as the method of choice for the non-empirical prediction of the electronic structure of…
A recently proposed ab initio Hartree-Fock approach aimed at directly obtaining the Wannier functions of a crystalline insulator is applied to polymers. The systems considered are the LiH chain and trans-polyacetylene. In addition to being…
In this work, we use Wannier functions to analyze topological phase transitions in one dimensional photonic crystals. We first review the construction of exponentially localized Wannier functions in one dimension, and show how to…
We discuss a maximally localized Wannier function approach for constructing lattice models from first-principles electronic structure calculations, where the effective Coulomb interactions are calculated in the constrained…
Functionals that strive to correct for such self-interaction errors, such as those obtained by imposing the Perdew-Zunger self-interaction correction or the generalized Koopmans' condition, become orbital dependent or orbital-density…
We propose a method for calculating Wannier functions of periodic solids directly from a modified variational principle for the energy, subject to the requirement that the Wannier functions are orthogonal to all their translations…
The method used earlier for analysis of correlated nanoscopic systems is extended to infinite (periodic) s-band like systems described by the Hubbard model and its extensions. The optimized single-particle wave functions contained in the…
We describe a robust method for determining Pipek-Mezey (PM) Wannier functions (WF), recently introduced by J\'onsson et al. (J. Chem. Theor. Chem. 2017, 13, 460), which provide some formal advantages over the more common Boys (also known…
Wannier functions have widespread utility in condensed matter physics and beyond. Topological physics, on the other hand, has largely involved the related notion of compactly-supported Wannier-type functions, which arise naturally in flat…
We describe and implement a first-principles algorithm based on maximally-localized Wannier functions for calculating the shift-current response of piezoelectric crystals in the independent-particle approximation. The proposed algorithm…
We present a local representation of the electronic dielectric response function, based on a spatial partition of the dielectric response into contributions from each Wannier function using a generalized density functional perturbation…
We show that an optimized projection functions method can automatically construct maximally localized Wannier functions even for bands with nontrivial topology. We demonstrate this method on a tight-binding model of a two-dimensional…
In the present Letter we use the Wannier function basis to construct lattice approximations of the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a periodic potential. We show that the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a periodic potential…
We present an efficient first-principles approach for calculating Fermi surface averages and spectral properties of solids, and use it to compute the low-field Hall coefficient of several cubic metals and the magnetic circular dichroism of…
We study the dispersion relation of the excitations of a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a periodic optical potential and its Bloch oscillations in an accelerated frame. The problem is reduced to one-dimensionality through a…
We address the question of different representation of Bloch states for lattices with a basis, with a focus on topological systems. The representations differ in the relative phase of the Wannier functions corresponding to the diffferent…
We present a novel family of continuous, linear time-frequency transforms adaptable to a multitude of (nonlinear) frequency scales. Similar to classical time-frequency or time-scale representations, the representation coefficients are…
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…
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…