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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

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…

The semiclassical Schr\"{o}dinger equation with multiscale and random potentials often appears when studying electron dynamics in heterogeneous quantum systems. As time evolves, the wavefunction develops high-frequency oscillations in both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Jingrun Chen , Dingjiong Ma , Zhiwen Zhang

We construct efficient approximations for the eigenfunctions of non-self-adjoint Schroedinger operators in one dimension. The same ideas also apply to the study of resonances of self-adjoint Schroedinger operators which have dilation…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-20 A. Aslanyan , E. B. Davies

The momentum-space derivatives of Bloch wavefunctions are essential for studying quantum geometry and the equilibrium and response properties of solids. In practical first-principles calculations, these derivatives are obtained via Wannier…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-27 Jae-Mo Lihm , Minsu Ghim , Seung-Ju Hong , Cheol-Hwan Park

The localization properties of eigenfunctions for two interacting particles in the one-dimensional Anderson model are studied for system sizes up to $N=5000$ sites corresponding to a Hilbert space of dimension $\approx 10^7$ using the Green…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-05-05 Klaus M. Frahm

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

Exponentially-localized Wannier functions (ELWFs) are an orthonormal basis of the Fermi projection of a material consisting of functions which decay exponentially fast away from their maxima. When the material is insulating and crystalline,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Jianfeng Lu , Kevin D. Stubbs , Alexander B. Watson

We study $d$-dimensional scalar field theory in the Local Potential Approximation of the functional renormalization group. Sturm-Liouville methods allow the eigenoperator equation to be cast as a Schrodinger-type equation. Combining…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-15 Vlad-Mihai Mandric , Tim R. Morris , Dalius Stulga

Landscape functions are a popular tool used to provide upper bounds for eigenvectors of Schr\"odinger operators on domains. We review some known results obtained in the last ten years, unify several approaches used to achieve such bounds,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Delio Mugnolo

We present an alternative formalism for calculating the maximally localized Wannier functions in crystalline solids, obtaining an expression which is extremely simple and general. In particular, our scheme is exactly invariant under…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-03 Massimiliano Stengel , Nicola A. Spaldin

In this work we develop some automatic procedures for computing high order polynomial expansions of local (un)stable manifolds for equilibria of differential equations. Our method incorporates validated truncation error bounds, and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Maxime Breden , Jean-Philippe Lessard , Jason D. Mireles James

We consider an arbitrary square integrable function $F$ on the phase space and look for the Wigner function closest to it with respect to the $L^2$ norm. It is well known that the minimizing solution is the Wigner function of any…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 J. S. Ben-Benjamin , L. Cohen , N. C. Dias , P. Loughlin , J. N. Prata

This paper presents a method for computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors for some types of nonlinear eigenvalue problems. The main idea is to approximate the functions involved in the eigenvalue problem by rational functions and then apply a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Yousef Saad , Mohamed El-Guide , Agnieszka Międlar

Linear scaling methods for density-functional theory (DFT) simulations are formulated in terms of localised orbitals in real-space, rather than the delocalised eigenstates of conventional approaches. In local-orbital methods, relative to…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-30 N. D. M. Hine , M. Robinson , P. D. Haynes , C. -K. Skylaris , M. C. Payne , A. A. Mostofi

We discuss a maximally localized Wannier function approach for constructing lattice models from first-principles electronic structure calculations, where the effective Coulomb interactions are calculated in the constrained…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Takashi Miyake , F. Aryasetiawan

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

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

This article addresses the microlocalization of eigenfunctions for the semiclassical Schr\"odinger operator $-h^2\Delta+V$ on closed Riemann surfaces with real bounded potentials. Our primary aim is to establish quantitative bounds on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Sébastien Campagne

In this work, we consider the approximation of Hilbert space-valued meromorphic functions that arise as solution maps of parametric PDEs whose operator is the shift of an operator with normal and compact resolvent, e.g. the Helmholtz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-28 Francesca Bonizzoni , Fabio Nobile , Ilaria Perugia , Davide Pradovera