On the construction of composite Wannier functions

DOI10.1007/S00023-016-0489-2zbMATH Open1357.82069arXiv1506.07435OpenAlexW3103085316MaRDI QIDQ730129FDOQ730129

Gheorghe Nenciu, Ira Herbst, Horia D. Cornean

Publication date: 23 December 2016

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

Abstract: We give a constructive proof for the existence of an $N$-dimensional Bloch basis which is both smooth (real analytic) and periodic with respect to its $d$-dimensional quasi-momenta, when $1leqdleq2$ and $Ngeq1$. The constructed Bloch basis is conjugation symmetric when the underlying projection has this symmetry, hence the corresponding exponentially localized composite Wannier functions are real. In the second part of the paper we show that by adding a weak, globally bounded but not necessarily constant magnetic field, the existence of a localized basis is preserved.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.07435

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zbMATH Keywords

localizationBloch basiscomposite Wannier functions

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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