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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

Position scaling-eigenfunctions are generated by transforming compactly supported orthonormal scaling functions and utilized for faster alternatives to maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWFs). The position scaling-eigenfunctions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Yuji Hamai , Katsunori Wakabayashi

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

We present a joint implementation of dynamical-mean-field theory (DMFT) with the pseudopotential plane-wave approach, via Wannier functions, for the determination of the electronic properties of strongly correlated materials. The scheme…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-08 G. Trimarchi , I. Leonov , N. Binggeli , Dm. Korotin , V. I. Anisimov

We present an implementaion of interface between the full-potential linearized augmented plane wave package Wien2k and the wannier90 code for the construction of maximally localized Wannier functions. The FORTRAN code and a documentation is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Jan Kunes , Ryotaro Arita , Philipp Wissgott , Alessandro Toschi , Hiroaki Ikeda , Karsten Held

In the Projector Augmented Wave (PAW) method, a local potential, basis functions, and projector functions form an All-Electron (AE) basis for valence wave functions in the application of Density Functional Theory (DFT). The construction of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-08-05 R. J. Snow , A. F. Wright , C. Y. Fong

In this article, a numerical analysis of the projector augmented-wave (PAW) method is presented, restricted to the case of dimension one with Dirac potentials modeling the nuclei in a periodic setting. The PAW method is widely used in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Mi-Song Dupuy

The projector augmented wave (PAW) method of Bl\"ochl linearly maps smooth pseudo wavefunctions to the highly oscillatory all-electron DFT orbitals. Compared to norm-conserving pseudopotentials (NCPP), PAW has the advantage of lower kinetic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Minh Nguyen , Tim Duong , Daniel Neuhauser

The full-potential linearized augmented-plane wave (FP-LAPW) method is well known to enable most accurate calculations of the electronic structure and magnetic properties of crystals and surfaces. The implementation of atomic forces has…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Max Petersen , Frank Wagner , Lars Hufnagel , Matthias Scheffler , Peter Blaha , Karlheinz Schwarz

The purpose of this text is to give a self-contained description of the basic theory of the projector augmented-wave (PAW) method, as well as most of the details required to make the method work in practice. These two topics are covered in…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-13 Carsten Rostgaard

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

A procedure to construct symmetry-adapted Wannier functions in the framework of the maximally-localized Wannier function approach[Marzari and Vanderbilt, Phys. Rev. B \textbf{56}, 12847 (1997); Souza, Marzari, and Vanderbilt, \textit{ibid.}…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 R. Sakuma

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.…

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-24 Giulio Volpato , Stefano Mocatti , Giovanni Marini , Matteo Calandra

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

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 discuss a method for determining the optimally-localized set of generalized Wannier functions associated with a set of Bloch bands in a crystalline solid. By ``generalized Wannier functions'' we mean a set of localized orthonormal…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 Nicola Marzari , David Vanderbilt

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

The electronic ground state of a periodic system is usually described in terms of extended Bloch orbitals, but an alternative representation in terms of localized "Wannier functions" was introduced by Gregory Wannier in 1937. The connection…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-28 Nicola Marzari , Arash A. Mostofi , Jonathan R. Yates , Ivo Souza , David Vanderbilt

Real-time, time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) has gained popularity as a first-principles approach to study a variety of excited-state phenomena such as optical excitations and electronic stopping. Within RT-TDDFT…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-23 Dillon C. Yost , Yi Yao , Yosuke Kanai