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The AB s-valent dimer is used to analyse bond formation and charge transfer within the tight-binding (TB) approximation. In this way a physical interpretation of the electronic structure and binding energy within density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-21 D. G. Pettifor

The past years have witnessed impressive advances in electronic structure calculation, especially in the complexity and size of the systems studied, as well as in computation time. Linear scaling methods based on empirical tight-binding…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Abduxukur Abdurixit , Alexis Baratoff , Giulia Galli

Parameterized tight-binding models fit to first principles calculations can provide an efficient and accurate quantum mechanical method for predicting properties of molecules and solids. However, well-tested parameter sets are generally…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-28 Kevin F. Garrity , Kamal Choudhary

An empirical $s_cp^3_a$ tight-binding (TB) model is applied to the investigation of electronic states in semiconductor quantum dots. A basis set of three $p$-orbitals at the anions and one $s$-orbital at the cations is chosen. Matrix…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefan Schulz , Gerd Czycholl

We analyze the electronic structure of group II-VI semiconductors obtained within LMTO approach in order to arrive at a realistic and minimal tight binding model, parameterized to provide an accurate description of both valence and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Sameer Sapra , N. Shanthi , D. D. Sarma

Justification of tight-binding model from Schroedinger formalism for various topologies of position-based semiconductor qubits is presented in this work. Simplistic tight-binding model allows for description of single-electron devices at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Krzysztof Pomorski

Transition metal dichalcogenide materials $MX_2 (M=Mo,W;X=S,Se)$ are being thoroughly studied due to their novel two-dimensional structure, that is associated with exceptional optical and transport properties. From a computational point of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-12 James Sifuna , Pablo García-Fernández , George S. Manyali , George Amolo , Javier Junquera

We derive an effective quasiparticle tight-binding model which is able to describe with high accuracy the low-energy electronic structure of Sr2RuO4 obtained by means of low temperature angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Such…

In this work, we construct a Wannier tight-binding model for TaS$_2$ under a superlattice potential modulation, based on the Joint Automated Repository for Various Integrated Simulations database established by the U.S. National Institute…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-17 Thi-Nga Do , Godfrey Gumbs

This paper advocates for an innovative approach designed for estimating optoelectronic properties of quantum structures utilizing Tight-Binding (TB) theory. Predicated on the comparative analysis between estimated and actual properties, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Ali Haji Ebrahim Zargar , Ali Amini , Ahmad Ayatollahi

Cold atoms in optical lattices allow for accurate studies of many body dynamics. Rapid time-dependent modifications of optical lattice potentials may result in significant excitations in atomic systems. The dynamics in such a case is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-30 Mateusz Lacki , Jakub Zakrzewski

We employ a tight-binding parametrization based on the Slater Koster model in order to fit the band structures of single-layer, bilayer and bulk black phosphorus obtained from first-principles calculations. We find that our model, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Marcos G. Menezes , Rodrigo B. Capaz

Many of the important phases observed in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers are driven by short-range interactions, which should be captured by a local tight binding description since no Wannier obstruction exists for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-02 Valentin Crépel , Andrew Millis

The ideas of the linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO) method, well known from the study of electrons, is extended to the classical wave case. The Mie resonances of the isolated scatterer in the classical wave case, are analogous to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Lidorikis , M. M. Sigalas , C. M. Soukoulis , E. N. Economou

We theoretically study the optical conductivity of the tightbinding model which has two types of the hopping integrals arranged in the Fibonacci sequence. Due to the lack of the translational symmetry, many peak structures appear in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 Hiroki Iijima , Yuta Murakami , Akihisa Koga

We report on a theoretical derivation of the electronic dielectric response of semiconductor nanocrystals using a tight-binding framework. Extending to the nanoscale the Hanke and Sham approach [Phys. Rev. B 12, 4501 (1975)] developed for…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-09 F. Trani , D. Ninno , G. Iadonisi

A data-driven approach to calculating tight-binding models for discrete coupled-mode systems is presented. Specifically, spectral and topological data is used to build an appropriate discrete model that accurately replicates these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Justin T. Cole , Michael J. Nameika

With the help of a tight-binding (TB) electronic-structure toy model we investigate the matching of parameters across hetero-interfaces . We demonstrate that the virtual crystal approximation, commonly employed for this purpose, may not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 B. A. Stickler , W. Pötz

Solid state physics deals with systems composed of atoms with strongly bound electrons. The tunneling probability of each electron is determined by interactions that typically extend to neighboring sites, as their corresponding wave…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-27 F. Ramírez-Ramírez , E. Flores-Olmedo , G. Báez , E. Sadurní , R. ~A. Méndez-Sánchez

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…