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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 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 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

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 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 (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

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 the key tool for a variety of physical applications of Bloch states. Here we develop a simple and exact procedure to construct maximally localized Wannier functions for one dimensional periodic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-12 Yuri Lensky , Colin Kennedy

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

A procedure to construct symmetry-adapted Wannier functions in the framework of the maximally-localized Wannier function approach[Marzari and Vanderbilt, Phys. Rev. B \textbf{56}, 12847 (1997); Souza, Marzari, and Vanderbilt, \textit{ibid.}…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 R. Sakuma

The approximation of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of an elliptic operator is a key computational task in many areas of applied mathematics and computational physics. An important case, especially in quantum physics, is the computation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Douglas Arnold , Guy David , Marcel Filoche , David Jerison , Svitlana Mayboroda

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

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

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

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

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 discuss a method for constructing generalized Wannier functions that are maximally localized at the minima of a one-dimensional periodic potential with a double-well per unit cell. By following the approach of (Marzari M and Vanderbilt D…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-04 Michele Modugno , Giulio Pettini

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

The electronic ground state of a periodic system is usually described in terms of extended Bloch orbitals, but an alternative representation in terms of localized "Wannier functions" was introduced by Gregory Wannier in 1937. The connection…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-28 Nicola Marzari , Arash A. Mostofi , Jonathan R. Yates , Ivo Souza , David Vanderbilt

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
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