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We present a new scheme to include the van der Waals (vdW) interactions in approximated Density Functional Theory (DFT) by combining the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator model with the Maximally Localized Wannier Function technique. With respect…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Pier Luigi Silvestrelli

The Wannier localization problem in quantum physics is mathematically analogous to finding a localized representation of a subspace corresponding to a nonlinear eigenvalue problem. While Wannier localization is well understood for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Anil Damle , Lin Lin

Simulations of quantum chemistry and quantum materials are believed to be among the most important potential applications of quantum information processors, but realizing practical quantum advantage for such problems is challenging. Here,…

We present Quantum Unfolding, a Fortran90 program for unfolding first-principles electronic energy bands. It unfolds energy bands accurately by handling the Fourier components of Bloch wavefunctions, which are reconstructed from Wannier…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Fawei Zheng , Ping Zhang , Wenhui Duan

We derived explicit expressions of symmetry operators on Wannier basis, and implemented these operators in WannSymm software. Based on this implementation, WannSymm can i) symmetrize the real-space Hamiltonian output from Wannier90 code,…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-29 Guo-Xiang Zhi , Chenchao Xu , Si-Qi Wu , Fanlong Ning , Chao Cao

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

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 describe a method to calculate the electronic properties of an insulator under an applied electric field. It is based on the minimization of an electric enthalpy functional with respect to the orbitals, which behave as Wannier functions…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-22 Pawel Lenarczyk , Mathieu Luisier

In this work, we use Wannier functions to analyze topological phase transitions in one dimensional photonic crystals. We first review the construction of exponentially localized Wannier functions in one dimension, and show how to…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-07 Vaibhav Gupta , Barry Bradlyn

With its monoelemental composition, various crystalline forms and an inherently strong spin-orbit coupling, bismuth has been regarded as an ideal prototype material to expand our understanding of topological electronic structures. In…

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

We introduce a Wannier-type formulation of periodic local vibrational mode theory that yields real-space-localized vibrational modes associated with individual internal coordinates in crystalline solids. These modes are constructed as…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-12 Mateusz Mojsak , Elfi Kraka , Adam A. L. Michalchuk

Quantum computers promise to revolutionise electronic simulations by overcoming the exponential scaling of many-electron problems. While electronic wave functions can be represented using a product of fermionic unitary operators, shallow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-04 Hugh G. A. Burton , Daniel Marti-Dafcik , David P. Tew , David J. Wales

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

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

A robust, user-friendly, and automated method to determine quantum conductance in disordered quasi-one-dimensional systems is presented. The scheme relies upon an initial density- functional theory calculation in a specific geometry after…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Matthew Shelley , Nicolas Poilvert , Arash A Mostofi , Nicola Marzari

The central approximation made in classical molecular dynamics simulation of materials is the interatomic potential used to calculate the forces on the atoms. Great effort and ingenuity is required to construct viable functional forms and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Mitchell A. Wood , Mary Alice Cusentino , Brian D. Wirth , Aidan P. Thompson

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 present a computational scheme to study spin excitations in magnetic materials from first principles. The central quantity is the transverse spin susceptibility, from which the complete excitation spectrum, including single-particle…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-04 Ersoy Sasioglu , Arno Schindlmayr , Christoph Friedrich , Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel

We develop a computational workflow for high-throughput Wannierization of density functional theory (DFT) based electronic band structure calculations. We apply this workflow to 1771 materials, and we create a database with the resulting…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-03 Kevin F. Garrity , Kamal Choudhary