Wannier-function software ecosystem for materials simulations

A Marrazzo, S Beck, ER Margine, N Marzari… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Over the past two decades, following the early developments on maximally localized
Wannier functions, an ecosystem of electronic-structure simulation techniques and software …

Ab initio electronic structure calculations based on numerical atomic orbitals: Basic fomalisms and recent progresses

P Lin, X Ren, X Liu, L He - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The numerical atomic orbital (NAO) basis sets offer a computationally efficient option for
electronic structure calculations, as they require fewer basis functions compared with other …

Systematic analysis method for nonlinear response tensors

R Oiwa, H Kusunose - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2022 - journals.jps.jp
We propose a systematic analysis method for identifying essential parameters in various
linear and nonlinear response tensors without which they vanish. By using the Keldysh …

Using orbital sensitivity analysis to pinpoint the role of orbital interactions in thermoelectric power factor

W Zhang, JF Halet, T Mori - npj Computational Materials, 2023 - nature.com
The modification of the electronic band structure is of critical importance for thermoelectric
materials whose heat to electricity power generation is related to carrier effective mass and …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient computation of optical excitations in two-dimensional materials with the Xatu code

AJ Uría-Álvarez, JJ Esteve-Paredes… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Here we describe an efficient numerical implementation of the Bethe-Salpeter equation to
obtain the excitonic spectrum of semiconductors. This is done on the electronic structure …

Photocurrent-driven transient symmetry breaking in the Weyl semimetal TaAs

N Sirica, PP Orth, MS Scheurer, YM Dai, MC Lee… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Symmetry plays a central role in conventional and topological phases of matter, making the
ability to optically drive symmetry changes a critical step in develo** future technologies …

Proton–electron-coupled functionalities of conductivity, magnetism, and optical properties in molecular crystals

H Mori, S Yokomori, S Dekura, A Ueda - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Proton–electron-coupled reactions, specifically proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET), in
biological and chemical processes have been extensively investigated for use in a wide …

Momentum-resolved spin splitting in Mn-doped trivial CdTe and topological HgTe semiconductors

C Autieri, C Śliwa, R Islam, G Cuono, T Dietl - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Exchange coupling between localized spins and band or topological states accounts for
giant magnetotransport and magneto-optical effects as well as determines spin-spin …

Pyatb: An efficient python package for electronic structure calculations using ab initio tight-binding model

G **, H Pang, Y Ji, Z Dai, L He - Computer Physics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
We present PYATB, a Python package designed for computing band structures and related
properties of materials using the ab initio tight-binding Hamiltonian. The Hamiltonian is …

Internal energy and information flows mediate input and output power in bipartite molecular machines

E Lathouwers, DA Sivak - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Microscopic biological systems operate far from equilibrium, are subject to strong
fluctuations, and are composed of many coupled components with interactions varying in …