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The theory for the generation of Wannier functions within the generalized Pipek--Mezey approach [Lehtola, S.; J\'onsson, H. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2014, 10, 642] is presented and an implementation thereof is described. Results are…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-15 Elvar Ö. Jónsson , Susi Lehtola , Martti Puska , Hannes Jónsson

We have developed a linear scaling algorithm for calculating maximally-localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) using atomic orbital basis. An O(N) ground state calculation is carried out to get the density matrix (DM). Through a projection of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 H. J. Xiang , Zhenyu Li , W. Z. Liang , Jinlong Yang , J. G. Hou , Qingshi Zhu

We report on the implementation of the Wannier Functions (WFs) formalism within the full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method (FLAPW), suitable for bulk, film and one-dimensional geometries. The details of the implementation, as…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-07-21 F. Freimuth , Y. Mokrousov , D. Wortmann , S. Heinze , S. Blügel

When the first four spectral moments are considered, spectral features missing in standard Kohn-Sham (KS) density-functional theory (DFT), such as upper and lower Hubbard bands, as well as spectral satellite peaks, can be described, and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-13 Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

Wannier functions provide a localized representation of spectral subspaces of periodic Hamiltonians, and play an important role for interpreting and accelerating Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations in quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 Anil Damle , Antoine Levitt , Lin Lin

Maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) based on Kohn-Sham band-structures provide a systematic way to construct realistic, materials specific tight-binding models for further theoretical analysis. Here, we construct MLWFs for the Mn…

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

When using Wannier functions to study the electronic structure of multi-parameter Hamiltonians $H^{(\boldsymbol k,\bf \lambda)}$ carrying a dependence on crystal momentum $\boldsymbol k$ and an additional periodic parameter $\bf\lambda$,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Jan-Philipp Hanke , Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

Wannier90 is an open-source computer program for calculating maximally-localised Wannier functions (MLWFs) from a set of Bloch states. It is interfaced to many widely used electronic-structure codes thanks to its independence from the basis…

The description of realistic strongly correlated systems has recently advanced through the combination of density functional theory in the local density approximation (LDA) and dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). This LDA+DMFT method is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Amadon , F. Lechermann , A. Georges , F. Jollet , T. O. Wehling , A. I. Lichtenstein

A robust, user-friendly, and automated method to determine quantum conductance in disordered quasi-one-dimensional systems is presented. The scheme relies upon an initial density- functional theory calculation in a specific geometry after…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Matthew Shelley , Nicolas Poilvert , Arash A Mostofi , Nicola Marzari

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

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

The generation of input files for density functional theory (DFT) programs must often be manually done by researchers. If one wishes to produce a maximally localized wannier functions (MLWFs) the calculation consists of several separate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Christopher Sims

We show that an optimized projection functions method can automatically construct maximally localized Wannier functions even for bands with nontrivial topology. We demonstrate this method on a tight-binding model of a two-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-05 Jamal I. Mustafa , Sinisa Coh , Marvin L. Cohen , Steven G. Louie

Since the seminal work of Marzari and Vanderbilt, maximally localized Wannier functions have become widely used as a real-space representation of the electronic structure of periodic materials. In this paper we introduce selectively…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-08 Runzhi Wang , Emanuel A. Lazar , Hyowon Park , Andrew J. Millis , Chris A. Marianetti

We describe a robust method for determining Pipek-Mezey (PM) Wannier functions (WF), recently introduced by J\'onsson et al. (J. Chem. Theor. Chem. 2017, 13, 460), which provide some formal advantages over the more common Boys (also known…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Marjory C. Clement , Xiao Wang , Edward F. Valeev

We have developed a practical scheme to construct partly occupied, maximally localized Wannier functions (WFs) for a wide range of systems. We explain and demonstrate how the inclusion of selected unoccupied states in the definition of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 K. S. Thygesen , L. B. Hansen , K. W. Jacobsen

We present an approach to parameterize DFT+$U$+$V$ from hybrid-functional calculations using Wannier-function projections. The method constructs a common localized Wannier basis for both semilocal DFT and hybrid-functional calculations,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-25 Dmitry M. Korotin , Anna A. Anisimova , Vladimir I. Anisimov

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.…

A new implementation is proposed for including van der Waals (vdW) interactions in Density Functional Theory (DFT) using the Maximally-Localized Wannier functions (MLWFs), which is free from empirical parameters. With respect to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Pier Luigi Silvestrelli , Alberto Ambrosetti