Optimally localized Wannier functions for quasi one-dimensional nonperiodic insulators

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/41/12/125202MaRDI QIDQ5458984zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gheorghe Nenciu, Horia D. Cornean, Alexandrina Nenciu

Publication date 24 April 2008

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.3392

zbMATH Keywords

Bethe latticeBoltzmann weighthyperbolic lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40)

Abstract: It is proved that for general, not necessarily periodic quasi one dimensional systems, the band position operator corresponding to an isolated part of the energy spectrum has discrete spectrum and its eigenfunctions have the same spatial localization as the corresponding spectral projection. As a consequence, an eigenbasis of the band position operator provides a basis of optimally localized (generalized) Wannier functions for quasi one dimensional systems, thus proving the "strong conjecture" of Marzari and Vanderbilt. If the system has some translation symmetries (e.g. usual translations, screw transformations), they are "inherited" by the Wannier basis.

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