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We provide a constructive proof of exponentially localized Wannier functions and related Bloch frames in 1- and 2-dimensional time-reversal symmetric (TRS) topological insulators. The construction is formulated in terms of periodic TRS…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-13 Horia D. Cornean , Domenico Monaco , Stefan Teufel

We describe and implement a first-principles algorithm based on maximally-localized Wannier functions for calculating the shift-current response of piezoelectric crystals in the independent-particle approximation. The proposed algorithm…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-29 Julen Ibañez-Azpiroz , Stepan S. Tsirkin , Ivo Souza

We provide a framework to approximate the 2-Wasserstein distance and the optimal transport map, amenable to efficient training as well as statistical and geometric analysis. With the quadratic cost and considering the Kantorovich dual form…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Amirhossein Taghvaei , Amin Jalali

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

Over the last two decades, following the early developments on maximally localized Wannier functions, an ecosystem of electronic-structure simulation techniques and software packages leveraging the Wannier representation has flourished.…

We present a method for obtaining well-localized Wannier-like functions (WFs) for energy bands that are attached to or mixed with other bands. The present scheme removes the limitation of the usual maximally-localized WFs method (N. Marzari…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Ivo Souza , Nicola Marzari , David Vanderbilt

The paper presents the group theory of best localized and symmetry-adapted Wannier functions in a crystal of any given space group G or magnetic group M. Provided that the calculated band structure of the considered material is given and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-22 Ekkehard Krüger , Horst P. Strunk

We investigate the interplay of band structure topology and localization properties of Wannier functions. To this end, we extend a recently proposed compressed sensing based paradigm for the search for maximally localized Wannier functions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-12 J. C. Budich , J. Eisert , E. J. Bergholtz , S. Diehl , P. Zoller

We present a general method of constructing maximally localized Wannier functions. It consists of three steps: (1) picking a localized trial wave function, (2) performing a full band projection, and (3) orthonormalizing with the Lowdin…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-11 Junbo Zhu , Zhu Chen , Biao Wu

Maximally localized Wannier functions are localized orthogonal functions that can accurately represent given Bloch eigenstates of a periodic system at a low computational cost, thanks to the small size of each orbital. Tight-binding models…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-15 Jae-Mo Lihm , Cheol-Hwan Park

We present Wannier90, a program for calculating maximally-localised Wannier functions (MLWF) from a set of Bloch energy bands that may or may not be attached to or mixed with other bands. The formalism works by minimising the total spread…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-18 A. A. Mostofi , J. R. Yates , Y. -S. Lee , I. Souza , D. Vanderbilt , N. Marzari

We propose a numerical method using the discrete variable representation (DVR) for constructing real-valued Wannier functions localized in a unit cell for both symmetric and asymmetric periodic potentials. We apply these results to finding…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-14 Saurabh Paul , Eite Tiesinga

We present a new code to evaluate thermoelectric and electronic transport properties of extended systems with a maximally-localized Wannier function basis set. The semiclassical Boltzmann transport equations for the homogeneous infinite…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-22 Giovanni Pizzi , Dmitri Volja , Boris Kozinsky , Marco Fornari , Nicola Marzari

In a tight-binding lattice model with $n$ orbitals (single-particle states) per site, Wannier functions are $n$-component vector functions of position that fall off rapidly away from some location, and such that a set of them in some sense…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 N. Read

We present a robust algorithm that computes (maximally localized) Wannier functions (WFs) without the need of providing an initial guess. Instead, a suitable starting point is constructed automatically from so-called local orbitals which…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-01 Sebastian Tillack , Andris Gulans , Claudia Draxl

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

Wannier functions of the one dimensional Schroedinger equation with elliptic one gap potentials are explicitly constructed. Properties of these functions are analytically and numerically investigated. In particular we derive an expression…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 E D Belokolos , V Z Enolskii , M Salerno

Traditionally, the single-band approximation for interacting many-body systems is done with pre-determined single-particle Wannier functions, ignoring the dependence of the Wannier function on interaction. We show that the single-band…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-08-13 Biao Wu , Junren Shi

We apply the worldline formalism to the Grosse-Wulkenhaar model and obtain an expression for the one-loop effective action which provides an efficient way for computing Schwinger functions in this theory. Using this expression we obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-08 Sebastián Franchino Viñas , Pablo Pisani

The construction of exponentially localized Wannier functions for a set of bands requires a choice of Bloch-like functions that span the space of the bands in question, and are smooth and periodic functions of k in the entire Brillouin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Georg W. Winkler , Alexey A. Soluyanov , Matthias Troyer