On the construction of composite Wannier functions

DOI10.1007/S00023-016-0489-2MaRDI QIDQ730129zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Horia D. Cornean, Gheorghe Nenciu, Ira Herbst

Publication date 23 December 2016

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

Bloch basiscomposite Wannier functionslocalization

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)

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.

Review text

The existence and construction of exponentially localized Wannier functions is one of the fundamental problems in solid-state physics. The authors give a constructive proof for the existence of a Bloch basis of rank \(N\) which is both smooth and periodic with respect to its \(d\)-dimensional quasi-momenta, when \(1\leq d\leq 2\) and \(N\geq 1\). Also it is shown that, by adding a weak, globally bounded but not necessarily constant magnetic field, the existence of a localized basis is preserved.

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