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Based on ab initio software packages using nonorthogonal localized orbitals, we develop a general scheme of calculating response functions. We test the performance of this method by calculating nonlinear optical responses of materials, like…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-05 Chong Wang , Sibo Zhao , Xiaomi Guo , Xinguo Ren , Bing-Lin Gu , Yong Xu , Wenhui Duan

We report on the implementation of the Wannier Functions (WFs) formalism within the full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method (FLAPW), suitable for bulk, film and one-dimensional geometries. The details of the implementation, as…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-07-21 F. Freimuth , Y. Mokrousov , D. Wortmann , S. Heinze , S. Blügel

Position scaling-eigenfunctions are generated by transforming compactly supported orthonormal scaling functions and utilized for faster alternatives to maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWFs). The position scaling-eigenfunctions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Yuji Hamai , Katsunori Wakabayashi

Maximally-localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) are a powerful and broadly used tool to characterize the electronic structure of materials, from chemical bonding to dielectric response to topological properties. Most generally, one can…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Junfeng Qiao , Giovanni Pizzi , Nicola Marzari

Maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) are conventionally constructed by iteratively minimizing a spread functional over a high-dimensional gauge landscape. In this work, we present a non-variational constructive algorithm that…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Yuji Hamai , Katsunori Wakabayashi

We present Wannier90, a program for calculating maximally-localised Wannier functions (MLWF) from a set of Bloch energy bands that may or may not be attached to or mixed with other bands. The formalism works by minimising the total spread…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-18 A. A. Mostofi , J. R. Yates , Y. -S. Lee , I. Souza , D. Vanderbilt , N. Marzari

We present a first-principles scheme that allows the orbital magnetization of a magnetic crystal to be evaluated accurately and efficiently even in the presence of complex Fermi surfaces. Starting from an initial electronic-structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-02-03 M. G. Lopez , David Vanderbilt , T. Thonhauser , Ivo Souza

We investigate the electronic structure of over-coordinated defects in amorphous silicon via density-functional total-energy calculations, with the aim of understanding the relationship between topological and electronic properties on a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Fornari , N. Marzari , M. Peressi , A. Baldereschi

When the first four spectral moments are considered, spectral features missing in standard Kohn-Sham (KS) density-functional theory (DFT), such as upper and lower Hubbard bands, as well as spectral satellite peaks, can be described, and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-13 Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

We introduce a scheme for constructing partly occupied, maximally localized Wannier functions (WFs) for both molecular and periodic systems. Compared to the traditional occupied WFs the partly occupied WFs posses improved symmetry and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 K. S. Thygesen , L. B. Hansen , K. W. Jacobsen

We have developed a linear scaling algorithm for calculating maximally-localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) using atomic orbital basis. An O(N) ground state calculation is carried out to get the density matrix (DM). Through a projection of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 H. J. Xiang , Zhenyu Li , W. Z. Liang , Jinlong Yang , J. G. Hou , Qingshi Zhu

Thanks to the nearsightedness principle, the low-energy electronic structure of solids can be represented by localized states such as the Wannier functions. Wannier functions are actively being applied to a wide range of phenomena in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-22 Jae-Mo Lihm , Cheol-Hwan Park

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 describe a method to calculate the electronic properties of an insulator under an applied electric field. It is based on the minimization of an electric enthalpy functional with respect to the orbitals, which behave as Wannier functions…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-22 Pawel Lenarczyk , Mathieu Luisier

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

Ubiquitous Van der Waals interactions between atoms and molecules are important for many molecular and solid structures. These systems are often studied from first principles using the Density Functional Theory (DFT). However, the commonly…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Pier Luigi Silvestrelli

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…

The electronic ground state of a periodic crystalline solid is usually described in terms of extended Bloch orbitals; localized Wannier functions can alternatively be used. These two representations are connected by families of unitary…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Nicola Marzari , David Vanderbilt

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

The description of realistic strongly correlated systems has recently advanced through the combination of density functional theory in the local density approximation (LDA) and dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). This LDA+DMFT method is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Amadon , F. Lechermann , A. Georges , F. Jollet , T. O. Wehling , A. I. Lichtenstein