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A notion of band limited functions is considered in the case of the hyperbolic plane in its Poincare upper half-plane $\mathbb{H}$ realization. The concept of band-limitedness is based on the existence of the Helgason-Fourier transform on…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-05-17 Hans Feichtinger , Isaac Pesenson

In the presence of crystalline symmetries, second-order topological insulators can be featured by the polarization which is believed identical to the Wannier center. In this Letter, we show that second-order topological insulators are…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-22 Zhenzhen Liu , Guochao Wei , Jun-Jun Xiao

In this paper we present calculations on the electronic band structure of a two-dimensional lateral superlattice subject to a perpendicular magnetic field by employing a projection operator technique based on the ray-group of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 G. S. Kliros , P. C. Divari

Analyzing human vasculature and vessel-like, tubular structures, such as airways, is crucial for disease diagnosis and treatment. Current methods often rely on small sub-regions or simplified tree-like structures, rendering analysis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Chinmay Prabhakar , Bastian Wittmann , Paul Büschl , Hongwei Bran Li , Bjoern Menze , Suprosanna Shit

Classical nonlinear dimensionality reduction (NLDR) techniques like t-SNE, Isomap, and LLE excel at creating low-dimensional embeddings for data visualization but fundamentally lack the ability to map these embeddings back to the original…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Riddhish Thakare , Kingdom Mutala Akugri

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

The construction of Wannier functions from Bloch orbitals offers a unitary freedom that can be exploited to yield Wannier functions with advantageous properties. Minimizing the spatial variance is a well-known choice; another, previously…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-29 Aaron Mahler , Jacob Z. Williams , Neil Qiang Su , Weitao Yang

Recent development on fractional Chern insulators and proximate phases call for a real space representation of isolated Chern bands. Here we propose a new method for a general construction of optimally localized Wannier functions from such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Fang Xie , Yuan Fang , Lei Chen , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si

The design of periodic nanostructures allows to tailor the transport of photons, phonons, and matter waves for specific applications. Recent years have seen a further expansion of this field by engineering topological properties. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Vittorio Peano , Florian Sapper , Florian Marquardt

A new method for the localization of crystalline orbitals for entangled energy bands is proposed. It is an extension of the Wannier-Boys algorithm [C. M. Zicovich-Wilson, R. Dovesi, and V. R. Saunders, J. Chem. Phys. 115, 9708 (2001)] which…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-07 Uwe Birkenheuer , Dmitry Izotov

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

The interplay between symmetry and topology leads to a rich variety of electronic topological phases, protecting states such as the topological insulators and Dirac semimetals. Previous results, like the Fu-Kane parity criterion for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-31 Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath , Haruki Watanabe

Pretrained (language) embeddings are versatile, task-agnostic feature representations of entities, like words, that are central to many machine learning applications. These representations can be enriched through retrofitting, a class of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Justin Dieter , Arun Tejasvi Chaganty

Photonic structures with topologically nontrivial bands are usually designed by arranging simple meta-atoms, ideally, single-mode ones, in a carefully designed photonic lattice with symmetry that guarantees the emergence of topological…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-21 Roman S. Savelev , Maxim A. Gorlach

Deep generative models have demonstrated successful applications in learning non-linear data distributions through a number of latent variables and these models use a nonlinear function (generator) to map latent samples into the data space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Huiyu Zhou , Dacheng Tao , Xuelong Li

Topological flat bands at the Fermi level offer a promising platform to study a variety of intriguing correlated phase of matter. Here we present band engineering in the twisted orbital-active bilayers with spin-orbit coupling. The symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Huan Wang , Yadong Jiang , Zhaochen Liu , Jing Wang

A quantum phase space with Wannier basis is constructed: (i) classical phase space is divided into Planck cells; (ii) a complete set of Wannier functions are constructed with the combination of Kohn's method and L\"owdin method such that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Yuan Fang , Fan Wu , Biao Wu

We present an ab initio analysis of a continuous Hamiltonian that maps into the celebrated Haldane model. The tunnelling coefficients of the tight-binding model are computed by means of two independent methods - one based on the maximally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-23 Julen Ibañez-Azpiroz , Asier Eiguren , Aitor Bergara , Giulio Pettini , Michele Modugno

Given data, deep generative models, such as variational autoencoders (VAE) and generative adversarial networks (GAN), train a lower dimensional latent representation of the data space. The linear Euclidean geometry of data space pulls back…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Line Kuhnel , Tom Fletcher , Sarang Joshi , Stefan Sommer

We build symmetry adapted maximally localized Wannier states, and construct the low energy tight binding model for the four narrow bands of the twisted bilayer graphene. We do so when the twist angle is commensurate, near the `magic' value,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-02 Jian Kang , Oskar Vafek