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Realistic thermoelectric modeling and simulation tools are needed to explain the experiments and for device design. In this paper, we present a simple computational technique to make use of rigorous band structure calculations in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-12 Shuaib Salamat , Abhijeet Paul , Mehdi Salmani-Jelodar , Changwook Jeong , Gerhard Klimeck , Mark Lundstrom

Twistronics has received much attention as a new method to manipulate the properties of 2D van der Waals structures by introducing moir\'e patterns through a relative rotation between two layers. Here we begin a theoretical exploration of…

We present a method which computes many-electron energies and eigenfunctions by a full configuration interaction which uses a basis of atomistic tight-binding wave functions. This approach captures electron correlation as well as atomistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Erik Nielsen , Rajib Rahman , Richard P. Muller

Common models describing magnetotransport properties of periodically modulated two--dimensional systems often either directly start from a semiclassical approach or give results well conceivable within the semiclassical framework. Recently,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karel Vyborny , Ludvik Smrcka

Understanding the interatomic bonding and electronic properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials is crucial for preparing high-performance 2D semiconductor materials. We have calculated the band structure, electronic properties, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-14 Yu Wang , Yunhu Zhu , Yixin Li , Maolin Bo

We describe a versatile mechanism that provides tight-binding models with an enriched, topologically nontrivial bandstructure. The mechanism is algebraic in nature, and leads to tight-binding models that can be interpreted as a non-trivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 J. Arkinstall , M. H. Teimourpour , L. Feng , R. El-Ganainy , H. Schomerus

A novel approach to investigate the electron transport of cis- and trans-polyacetylene chains in the single-electron approximation is presented by using microwave emulation measurements and tight-binding calculations. In the emulation we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 Thomas Stegmann , John A. Franco-Villafañe , Yenni P. Ortiz , Ulrich Kuhl , Fabrice Mortessagne , Thomas H. Seligman

We explore band structures of one-dimensional open systems described by periodic non-Hermitian operators, based on continuum models and tight-binding models. We show that imaginary scalar potentials do not open band gaps but instead lead to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Ken Mochizuki , Tomoki Ozawa

One of the main characteristics of the new family of two-dimensional crystals of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) is the strong spin-orbit interaction, which makes them very promising for future applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 R. Roldán , M. P. López-Sancho , E. Cappelluti , J. A. Silva-Guillén , P. Ordejón , F. Guinea

A quantitative understanding of how cells interact with their extracellular matrix via molecular bonds is fundamental for many important processes in cell biology and engineering. In these interactions, the deformability of cells and matrix…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Qiangzeng Huang , Jizeng Wang

We derive electronic tight-binding Hamiltonians for strained graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and transition metal dichalcogenides based on Wannier transformation of {\it ab initio} density functional theory calculations. Our microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Shiang Fang , Stephen Carr , Miguel A. Cazalilla , Efthimios Kaxiras

We present a density functional theory parametrized hybrid k$\cdot$p tight binding model for electronic properties of atomically thin films of transition-metal dichalcogenides, 2H-$MX_2$ ($M$=Mo, W; $X$=S, Se). We use this model to analyze…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 David A. Ruiz-Tijerina , Mark Danovich , Celal Yelgel , Viktor Zólyomi , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

An algebraic geometry method is used to calculate the moments of the electron density of states as a function of the energy for lattices in the tight binding approximation. Interpreting the moments as the Mellin transform of the density…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-06-04 Koushik Ray , Siddhartha Sen

We introduce the first multiorbital effective tight-binding model to describe the effect of electron-electron interactions in this system. Upon fixing all the effective hopping parameters in the normal state against an ab initio band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-27 Lei Su , Chuang-Han Hsu , Hsin Lin , Vitor M. Pereira

A new method for calculating the total energy of Si systems is presented. The method is based on the effective-medium theory concept of a reference system. Instead of calculating the energy of an atom in the system of interest a reference…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-14 K. Stokbro , N. Chetty , K. W. Jacobsen , J. K. Nørskov

We use maximally localized Wannier functions to construct tight-binding (TB) parameterizations for the e_g bands of LaMnO_3 based on first principles electronic structure calculations. We compare two different ways to represent the relevant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Roman Kovacik , Claude Ederer

We present PYATB, a Python package designed for computing band structures and related properties of materials using the ab initio tight-binding Hamiltonian. The Hamiltonian is directly obtained after conducting self-consistent calculations…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-09 Gan Jin , ongsheng Pang , Yuyang Ji , Zujian Dai , Lixin He

We analyze and present applications of a recently proposed empirical tight-binding scheme for investigating the effects of alloy disorder on various electronic and optical properties of semiconductor alloys, such as the band gap variation,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-31 Anh-Luan Phan , Alessandro Pecchia , Alessia Di Vito , Matthias Auf der Maur

Hybrid density functional calculation is indispensable to accurate description of electronic structure, whereas the formidable computational cost restricts its broad application. Here we develop a deep equivariant neural network method…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-17 Zechen Tang , He Li , Peize Lin , Xiaoxun Gong , Gan Jin , Lixin He , Hong Jiang , Xinguo Ren , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu