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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

We present a robust algorithm that computes (maximally localized) Wannier functions (WFs) without the need of providing an initial guess. Instead, a suitable starting point is constructed automatically from so-called local orbitals which…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-01 Sebastian Tillack , Andris Gulans , Claudia Draxl

Maximally localized Wannier functions are widely used in electronic structure theory for analyses of bonding, electric polarization, orbital magnetization, and for interpolation. The state of the art method for their construction is based…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-02 Jamal I. Mustafa , Sinisa Coh , Marvin L. Cohen , Steven G. Louie

Maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) are widely used to construct first-principles tight-binding models that accurately reproduce the electronic structure of materials. Recently, robust and automated approaches to generate these…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Junfeng Qiao , Giovanni Pizzi , Nicola Marzari

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 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

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

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

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

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

A non-iterative method is presented to calculate the closest Wannier functions (CWFs) to a given set of localized guiding functions, such as atomic orbitals, hybrid atomic orbitals, and molecular orbitals, based on minimization of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-03 Taisuke Ozaki

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

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

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

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

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

Maximally-localized Wannier functions are quantum wavefunctions resembling atomic orbitals that are used to describe electrons in condensed matter. Since their introduction in 1997, these functions have become ubiquitous in ab initio…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Sabyasachi Tiwari , Bruno Cucco , Viet-Anh Ha , Feliciano Giustino

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-05 Jamal I. Mustafa , Sinisa Coh , Marvin L. Cohen , Steven G. Louie

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

The maximally localized Wannier functions play a very important role in the study of chemical bonding, ballistic transport and strongly-correlated system, etc. A significant development in this branch was made in 1997 and conjectured that…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-07-28 Sangryol Ri , Suil Ri
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