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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

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 report a $k$-point extension of the second-order co-iterative augmented Hessian (CIAH) algorithm, termed $k$-CIAH, for Pipek-Mezey (PM) localization of Wannier functions (WFs). By exploiting an efficient evaluation of the Hessian-vector…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Gengzhi Yang , Hong-Zhou Ye

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

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 present a study of the construction and spatial properties of localized Wannier orbitals in large supercells of insulating solids using plane waves as the underlying basis. The Pipek-Mezey (PM) functional in combination with intrinsic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Benjamin Wöckinger , Alexander Rumpf , Tobias Schäfer

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

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

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

We propose an algorithm to determine Maximally Localized Wannier Functions (MLWFs). This algorithm, based on recent theoretical developments, does not require any physical input such as initial guesses for the Wannier functions, unlike…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-13 Éric Cancès , Antoine Levitt , Gianluca Panati , Gabriel Stoltz

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

We extend the Intrinsic Atomic Orbital (IAO) method for localisation of molecular orbitals to calculate well-localised generalised Wannier functions in crystals using the Pipek--Mezey locality metric. We furthermore present a one-shot…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-02 Andrew Zhu , David P. Tew

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

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

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 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

We present a method for obtaining well-localized Wannier-like functions (WFs) for energy bands that are attached to or mixed with other bands. The present scheme removes the limitation of the usual maximally-localized WFs method (N. Marzari…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Ivo Souza , Nicola Marzari , David Vanderbilt

Wannier functions provide a localized representation of spectral subspaces of periodic Hamiltonians, and play an important role for interpreting and accelerating Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations in quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 Anil Damle , Antoine Levitt , Lin Lin

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

Since the seminal work of Marzari and Vanderbilt, maximally localized Wannier functions have become widely used as a real-space representation of the electronic structure of periodic materials. In this paper we introduce selectively…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-08 Runzhi Wang , Emanuel A. Lazar , Hyowon Park , Andrew J. Millis , Chris A. Marianetti
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