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The construction of Wannier functions from Bloch orbitals offers a unitary freedom that can be exploited to yield Wannier functions with advantageous properties. Minimizing the spatial variance is a well-known choice; another, previously…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-29 Aaron Mahler , Jacob Z. Williams , Neil Qiang Su , Weitao Yang

We present a rapidly convergent scheme for computing globally optimal Wannier functions of isolated single bands for matrix models in two dimensions. The scheme proceeds first by constructing provably exponentially localized Wannier…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Hanwen Zhang

Recent development on fractional Chern insulators and proximate phases call for a real space representation of isolated Chern bands. Here we propose a new method for a general construction of optimally localized Wannier functions from such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Fang Xie , Yuan Fang , Lei Chen , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si

We have constructed maximally-localized Wannier functions for prototype structures of solid molecular hydrogen under pressure, starting from LDA and tight-binding Bloch wave functions. Each occupied Wannier function can be associated with…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Ivo Souza , Richard M. Martin , Nicola Marzari , Xinyuan Zhao , David Vanderbilt

We present an approach to parameterize DFT+$U$+$V$ from hybrid-functional calculations using Wannier-function projections. The method constructs a common localized Wannier basis for both semilocal DFT and hybrid-functional calculations,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-25 Dmitry M. Korotin , Anna A. Anisimova , Vladimir I. Anisimov

Maximally localized Wannier functions use the gauge freedom of Bloch wavefunctions to define the optimally smooth subspace with matrix elements that depend smoothly on crystal momentum. The associated Wannier functions are real-space…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-24 Giulio Volpato , Stefano Mocatti , Giovanni Marini , Matteo Calandra

To obtain a local description from highly accurate density functional theory codes that are based on modified plane wave bases, a transformation to a local orthonormal Wannier function basis is required. In order to do so while enforcing…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-20 K. Koepernik , O. Janson , Yan Sun , J. van den Brink

Localized Wannier functions provide an efficient and intuitive framework to compute electric polarization from first-principles. They can also be used to represent the electronic systems at fixed electric field and to determine dielectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-28 Pawel Lenarczyk , Mathieu Luisier

Accurate prediction of fundamental band gaps of crystalline solid state systems entirely within density functional theory is a long standing challenge. Here, we present a simple and inexpensive method that achieves this by means of…

A versatile method for combining density functional theory (DFT) in the local density approximation (LDA) with dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is presented. Starting from a general basis-independent formulation, we use Wannier functions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Lechermann , A. Georges , A. Poteryaev , S. Biermann , M. Posternak , A. Yamasaki , O. K. Andersen

Real-time, time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) has gained popularity as a first-principles approach to study a variety of excited-state phenomena such as optical excitations and electronic stopping. Within RT-TDDFT…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-23 Dillon C. Yost , Yi Yao , Yosuke Kanai

Variational wave function ansatze are an invaluable tool to study the properties of strongly correlated systems. We propose such a wave function, based on the theory of auxiliary fields and combining aspects of auxiliary-field quantum Monte…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-13 Ryan Levy , Miguel A. Morales , Shiwei Zhang

Wannier functions have become a powerful tool in the electronic structure calculations of extended systems. The generalized Pipek-Mezey Wannier functions exhibit appealing characteristics (e.g., reaching an optimal localization and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-04 Guorong Weng , Mariya Romanova , Arsineh Apelian , Hanbin Song , Vojtěch Vlček

Superoscillating functions, i.e., functions that locally oscillate at a rate faster than their highest Fourier component, are of interest for applications from fundamental physics to engineering. Here, we develop a new method which allows…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Leilee Chojnacki , Achim Kempf

A new method for the localization of crystalline orbitals for entangled energy bands is proposed. It is an extension of the Wannier-Boys algorithm [C. M. Zicovich-Wilson, R. Dovesi, and V. R. Saunders, J. Chem. Phys. 115, 9708 (2001)] which…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-07 Uwe Birkenheuer , Dmitry Izotov

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

Maximally-localised Wannier functions (MLWFs) are routinely used to compute from first-principles advanced materials properties that require very dense Brillouin zone integration and to build accurate tight-binding models for scale-bridging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 Valerio Vitale , Giovanni Pizzi , Antimo Marrazzo , Jonathan R. Yates , Nicola Marzari , Arash A. Mostofi

We review the formalisms of the self-consistent GW approximation to many-body perturbation theory and of the generation of optimally-localized Wannier functions from groups of energy bands. We show that the quasiparticle Bloch wave…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 D. R. Hamann , David Vanderbilt

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

The theory for the generation of Wannier functions within the generalized Pipek--Mezey approach [Lehtola, S.; J\'onsson, H. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2014, 10, 642] is presented and an implementation thereof is described. Results are…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-15 Elvar Ö. Jónsson , Susi Lehtola , Martti Puska , Hannes Jónsson