Construction of real-valued localized composite Wannier functions for insulators

DOI10.1007/S00023-015-0400-6zbMATH Open1338.82057arXiv1408.0527OpenAlexW2037547139MaRDI QIDQ5962767FDOQ5962767

Domenico Fiorenza, G. Panati, Domenico Monaco

Publication date: 23 February 2016

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a real periodic Schr"odinger operator and a physically relevant family of $mgeq1$ Bloch bands, separated by a gap from the rest of the spectrum, and we investigate the localization properties of the corresponding composite Wannier functions. To this aim, we show that in dimension $dleq3$ there exists a global frame consisting of smooth quasi-Bloch functions which are both periodic and time-reversal symmetric. Aiming to applications in computational physics, we provide a constructive algorithm to obtain such a Bloch frame. The construction yields the existence of a basis of composite Wannier functions which are real-valued and almost-exponentially localized. The proof of the main result exploits only the fundamental symmetries of the projector on the relevant bands, allowing applications, beyond the model specified above, to a broad range of gapped periodic quantum systems with a time-reversal symmetry of bosonic type.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.0527

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zbMATH Keywords

Wannier functionsBloch statesperiodic Schrödinger operatorsBloch frame

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20)

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