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We introduce a maximally-localized Wannier function representation of Bloch excitons, two-particle correlated electron-hole excitations, in crystalline solids, where the excitons are maximally-localized with respect to an average…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-08 Jonah B. Haber , Diana Y. Qiu , Felipe H. da Jornada , Jeffrey B. Neaton

We discuss a method for determining the optimally-localized set of generalized Wannier functions associated with a set of Bloch bands in a crystalline solid. By ``generalized Wannier functions'' we mean a set of localized orthonormal…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 Nicola Marzari , David Vanderbilt

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

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

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 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

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 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 semi-automated method for obtaining an initial estimate of Wannier functions, designed to facilitate the construction of Wannier functions for describing low-energy effective models of solids, particularly those relevant to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-24 Tatsuki Oikawa , Kota Ido , Takahiro Misawa , Takashi Koretsune , Kazuyoshi Yoshimi

Wannier90 is an open-source computer program for calculating maximally-localised Wannier functions (MLWFs) from a set of Bloch states. It is interfaced to many widely used electronic-structure codes thanks to its independence from the basis…

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

A standard task in solid state physics and quantum chemistry is the computation of localized molecular orbitals known as Wannier functions. In this manuscript, we propose a new procedure for computing Wannier functions in one-dimensional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Abinand Gopal , Hanwen Zhang

We have developed a practical scheme to construct partly occupied, maximally localized Wannier functions (WFs) for a wide range of systems. We explain and demonstrate how the inclusion of selected unoccupied states in the definition of the…

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

We report a theoretical scheme that enables the calculation of maximally localized Wannier functions in the formalism of projector-augmented-waves (PAW) which also includes the ultrasoft-pseudopotential (USPP) approach. We give a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Ferretti , Arrigo Calzolari , Benedetta Bonferroni , Rosa Di Felice

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

We have developed a method to construct a symmetry-adapted Wannier tight-binding model based on the closest Wannier formalism and the symmetry-adapted multipole theory. Since the symmetry properties of the closest Wannier functions are…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-11 Rikuto Oiwa , Akane Inda , Satoru Hayami , Takuya Nomoto , Ryotaro Arita , Hiroaki Kusunose

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

As demonstrated by Slepian et. al. in a sequence of classical papers, prolate spheroidal wave functions (PSWFs) provide a natural and efficient tool for computing with bandlimited functions defined on an interval. Recently, PSWFs have been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-10 Andrei Osipov , Vladimir Rokhlin

In this work, we investigate conditions which ensure the existence of an exponentially localized Wannier basis for a given periodic hamiltonian. We extend previous results in [Pan07] to include periodic zero flux magnetic fields which is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-26 Giuseppe De Nittis , Max Lein

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