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A quantum phase space with Wannier basis is constructed: (i) classical phase space is divided into Planck cells; (ii) a complete set of Wannier functions are constructed with the combination of Kohn's method and L\"owdin method such that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Yuan Fang , Fan Wu , Biao Wu

In this work, the transition matrix elements for inelastic electron--electron scattering are investigated. The angular part is given by spherical harmonics. For the weighted radial wave function overlap, analytic expressions are derived in…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-09 Stefan Löffler , Peter Schattschneider

We study the dynamical aspects of the top rank statistics of particles, performing Brownian motions on a half-line, which are ranked by their distance from the origin. For this purpose, we introduce an observable that we call the overlap…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Zdzislaw Burda , Mario Kieburg

From the order-N electronic-structure formulation, a Hamiltonian is derived, of which lowest eigen state is the generalized or composite-band Wannier state. This Hamiltonian maps the locality of the Wannier state to that of a virtual…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Takeo Hoshi , Takeo Fujiwara

Orbital entropies, pair entropies, and mutual information have become popular tools for analysis of strongly correlated wave functions. They can quantitatively measure how strongly an orbital participates in the electron correlation and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Jiri Pittner

We describe a real-space approach to the calculation of the properties of an insulating crystal in an applied electric field, based on the iterative determination of the Wannier functions (WF's) of the occupied bands. It has been recently…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 R. W. Nunes , David Vanderbilt

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 Xiaochuan Ge , Deyu Lu

Using muffin-tin orbital (MTO) based NMTO-downfolding procedure within the framework of local density approximation, we construct the Wannier orbitals for the $t_{2g}$ manifold of bands in V2O3 in the paramagnetic phase. The real space…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-07-17 T. Saha-Dasgupta , O. K. Andersen , J. Nuss , A. I. Poteryaev , A. Georges , A. I. Lichtenstein

We show that two-dimensional band insulators, with vanishing bulk polarization, obey bulk-and-edge to corner charge correspondence stating that the knowledge of the bulk and the two corresponding ribbon band structures uniquely determines…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 Luka Trifunovic

An ab initio Hartree-Fock approach aimed at directly obtaining the localized orthogonal orbitals (Wannier functions) of a crystalline insulator is described in detail. The method is used to perform all-electron calculations on the ground…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Alok Shukla , Michael Dolg , Peter Fulde , Hermann Stoll

Exciton-polariton propagation in a quantum well, under centre-of-mass quantization, is computed by a variational self-consistent microscopic theory. The Wannier exciton envelope functions basis set is given by the simple analytical model of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 D. Schiumarini , N. Tomassini , L. Pilozzi , A. D'Andrea

We define Wannier functions for interacting systems, and show that the results on the localization of the Wannier functions for non-interacting systems carry over to the Wannier functions for interacting systems. In addition we demonstrate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Erik Koch , Stefan Goedecker

We introduce a variational wave-function to study the polaron formation when the electronic transfer integral depends on the relative displacement between nearest-neighbor sites giving rise to a non-local electron-phonon coupling with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 C. A. Perroni , E. Piegari , M. Capone , V. Cataudella

A new scheme for the computation of dispersive interactions from first principles is presented. This cost-effective approach relies on a Wannier function representation compatible with density function theory descriptions. This is an…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-04 Diem Thi-Xuan Dang , Dai-Nam Le , Lilia M. Woods

We present a method to calculate the Landau levels and the corresponding edge states of two dimensional (2D) crystals using as a starting point their electronic structure as obtained from standard density functional theory (DFT). The DFT…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-16 J. L. Lado , J. Fernandez-Rossier

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…

Diffusion of electrons in a two-dimensional system with time-dependent random potentials is investigated numerically. In the absence of spin-orbit scattering, the conductivity shows universal weak localization correction. In the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Takeshi Nakanishi , Tomi Ohtsuki

We derive a multi-band formulation of the orbital magnetization in a normal periodic insulator (i.e., one in which the Chern invariant, or in 2d the Chern number, vanishes). Following the approach used recently to develop the single-band…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Davide Ceresoli , T. Thonhauser , David Vanderbilt , R. Resta

A model to describe electronic correlations in energy bands is considered. The model is a generalization of the conventional Hubbard model that allows for the fact that the wavefunction for two electrons occupying the same Wannier orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 J. E. Hirsch

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