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A general method is presented to unfold band structures of first-principles super-cell calculations with proper spectral weight, allowing easier visualization of the electronic structure and the degree of broken translational symmetry. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-06-29 Wei Ku , Tom Berlijn , Chi-Cheng Lee

We introduce a program named KPROJ that unfolds the electronic and phononic band structure of materials modeled by supercells. The program is based on the $\textit{k}$-projection method, which projects the wavefunction of the supercell onto…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-17 Jiaxin Chen , M. Weinert , Mingxing Chen

Unfolding the band structure of a supercell to a normal cell enables us to investigate how symmetry breakers such as surfaces and impurities perturb the band structure of the normal cell. We generalize the unfolding method, originally…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-07 Chi-Cheng Lee , Yukiko Yamada-Takamura , Taisuke Ozaki

The band-unfolding method is widely used to calculate the effective band structures of a disordered system from its supercell model. The unfolded band structures show the crystallographic symmetry of the underlying structure, where the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-18 Yuji Ikeda , Abel Carreras , Atsuto Seko , Atsushi Togo , Isao Tanaka

Band structure unfolding is a key technique for analyzing and simplifying the electronic band structure of large, internally distorted supercells that break the primitive cell's translational symmetry. In this work, we present an efficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-10 Jingkai Quan , Nikita Rybin , Matthias Scheffler , Christian Carbogno

Band theory provides the foundation for understanding electronic structure in crystalline materials, but its reliance on exact translational symmetry limits its applicability to systems with defects, disorder, incommensurate modulations, or…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-08 Christopher A. Bairnsfather , Ralph M. Kaufmann , Terry A. Loring , Alexander Cerjan

We revisit the problem that relevant parts of bandstructures for a given cell choice can reflect exact or approximate higher symmetries of subsystems in the cell and can therefore be significantly simplified by an unfolding procedure that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-13 Milan Tomić , Harald O. Jeschke , Roser Valentí

We show that the spectral weights $W_{m\vec K}(\vec k)$ used for the unfolding of two-component spinor eigenstates $| {\psi_{m\vec K}^\mathrm{SC}} > = | \alpha > | {\psi_{m\vec{K}}^\mathrm{SC, \alpha}} > + | \beta > |…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-29 Paulo V. C. Medeiros , Stepan S. Tsirkin , Sven Stafström , Jonas Björk

A method to analyze optical transitions is developed by combining the Kubo-Greenwood formula with the unfolding method to construct an unfolded electronic band structure with optical transition weights, which allows us to investigate how…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-31 Yung-Ting Lee , Chi-Cheng Lee , Masahiro Fukuda , Taisuke Ozaki

A new non-perturbative framework for many-body correlated systems is formulated by extending the operator projection method (OPM). This method offers a systematic expansion which enables us to project into the low-energy structure after…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Shigeki Onoda , Masatoshi Imada

In this paper we study the Weihrauch complexity of projection operators onto closed subsets of the Euclidean space. We show that some fundamental degrees of the Weihrauch lattice can be characterized in terms of such operators.

Logic · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Guido Gherardi , Alberto Marcone , Arno Pauly

We present a simple view on band unfolding of the energy bands obtained from supercell calculations. It relies on the relationship between the local density of states in reciprocal space (qLDOS) and the fully unfolded band structure. This…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-24 Sara G. Mayo , Felix Yndurain , Jose M. Soler

We describe the representation of arbitrary density operators in terms of expectation values of simple projection operators. Two representations are presented which yield non--recursive schemes for experimentally determining the density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ole Steuernagel , John A. Vaccaro

The problem of construction of projection operators on eigen-subspaces of symmetry operators is considered. This problem arises in many approximate methods for solving time-independent and time-dependent quantum problems, and its solution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Artur F. Izmaylov

The construction of the operators and correlators required to determine the excited baryon spectrum is presented, with the aim of exploring the spatial and spin structure of the states while minimizing the number of propagator inversions.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-17 LHP Collaboration , S. Basak , R. Edwards , R. Fiebig , G. Fleming , U. M. Heller , C. Morningstar , D. Richards , I. Sato , S. Wallace

We consider the space of abstract Uryson operators firstly introduced in [9]. We obtain the formulas for band projections on the band generated by increasing set of a positive Uryson operators and on the band generated one-dimensional…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-25 M. A. Ben Amor , M. Pliev

The not necessarily unitary evolution operator of a finite dimensional quantum system is studied with the help of a projection operators technique. Applying this approach to the Schr\"odinger equation allows the derivation of an alternative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 V. Semin , F. Petruccione

An extended multi-hadron operator is developed to extract the spectra of irreducible representations in the finite volume. The irreducible representations of the cubic group are projected using a coordinate-space operator. The correlation…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Jia-jun Wu , Waseem Kamleh , Derek B. Leinweber , Gerrit Schierholz , Ross D. Young , James M. Zanotti

A new projection operator based on cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) is proposed. The new operator computes the intersection of projection factor sets produced by different CAD projection orders. In other words, it computes the gcd…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Jingjun Han , Liyun Dai , Bican Xia

Complex bands $\vec{k}^{\perp}(E)$ in a semiconductor crystal, along a general direction $\vec{n}$, can be computed by casting Schr\"odinger's equation as a generalized polynomial eigenvalue problem. When working with primitive lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 Arvind Ajoy , Kota V R M Murali , Shreepad Karmalkar
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