Compactly supported Wannier functions and strictly local projectors

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AC1167MaRDI QIDQ5877413zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pratik Sathe, Fenner Harper, Rahul Roy

Publication date 13 February 2023

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05528

zbMATH Keywords

localizationWannier functionstight-binding modelsstrict localizationband projectorscompactly supported wavefunctions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX) Quantum theory (81-XX)

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