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Maximally localized Wannier functions use the gauge freedom of Bloch wavefunctions to define the optimally smooth subspace with matrix elements that depend smoothly on crystal momentum. The associated Wannier functions are real-space…

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We present an automatic, high-order accurate, and adaptive Brillouin zone integration algorithm for the calculation of the optical conductivity with a non-zero but small broadening factor $\eta$, focusing on the case in which a Hamiltonian…

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Based on ab initio software packages using nonorthogonal localized orbitals, we develop a general scheme of calculating response functions. We test the performance of this method by calculating nonlinear optical responses of materials, like…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-05 Chong Wang , Sibo Zhao , Xiaomi Guo , Xinguo Ren , Bing-Lin Gu , Yong Xu , Wenhui Duan

We present a first-principles scheme that allows the orbital magnetization of a magnetic crystal to be evaluated accurately and efficiently even in the presence of complex Fermi surfaces. Starting from an initial electronic-structure…

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Wannier interpolation is a powerful tool for performing Brillouin zone integrals over dense grids of $\mathbf{k}$ points, which are essential to evaluate such quantities as the intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity or Boltzmann transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-22 Stepan S. Tsirkin

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

A general analysis of undistorted propagation of localized wavepackets in photonic crystals based on a Wannier-function expansion technique is presented. Different kinds of propagating and stationary spatio-temporal localized waves are…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefano Longhi

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…

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Working in the crystal-momentum representation, we calculate the optical conductivity of noncentrosymmetric insulating crystals at first order in the wave vector of light. The time-even part of this tensor describes natural optical activity…

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We present a theoretical method for calculating optical absorption spectra based on maximally localized Wannier functions, which is suitable for large periodic systems. For this purpose, we calculate the exciton Hamiltonian, which…

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A standard task in solid state physics and quantum chemistry is the computation of localized molecular orbitals known as Wannier functions. In this manuscript, we propose a new procedure for computing Wannier functions in one-dimensional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Abinand Gopal , Hanwen Zhang

Capturing data from dynamic processes through cross-sectional measurements is seen in many fields, such as computational biology. Trajectory inference deals with the challenge of reconstructing continuous processes from such observations.…

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Thanks to the nearsightedness principle, the low-energy electronic structure of solids can be represented by localized states such as the Wannier functions. Wannier functions are actively being applied to a wide range of phenomena in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-22 Jae-Mo Lihm , Cheol-Hwan Park

We describe a real-space approach to the calculation of the properties of an insulating crystal in an applied electric field, based on the iterative determination of the Wannier functions (WF's) of the occupied bands. It has been recently…

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Within the expansive domain of optical sciences, achieving the precise characterization of light beams stands as a fundamental pursuit, pivotal for various applications, including telecommunications and imaging technologies. This study…

The Bethe-Salpeter formalism represents the most accurate method available nowadays for computing neutral excitation energies and optical spectra of crystalline systems from first principles. Bethe-Salpeter calculations yield very good…

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We propose a new method for smoothly interpolating probability measures using the geometry of optimal transport. To that end, we reduce this problem to the classical Euclidean setting, allowing us to directly leverage the extensive toolbox…

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