First-principles calculations of charge carrier mobility and conductivity in bulk semiconductors and two-dimensional materials

S Poncé, W Li, S Reichardt… - Reports on Progress in …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the fundamental properties of semiconductors is their ability to support highly tunable
electric currents in the presence of electric fields or carrier concentration gradients. These …

First-principles predictions of Hall and drift mobilities in semiconductors

S Poncé, F Macheda, ER Margine, N Marzari… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Carrier mobility is at the root of our understanding of electronic devices. We present a unified
methodology for the parameter-free calculations of phonon-limited drift and Hall carrier …

Numerical methods for Kohn–Sham density functional theory

L Lin, J Lu, L Ying - Acta Numerica, 2019 - cambridge.org
Kohn–Sham density functional theory (DFT) is the most widely used electronic structure
theory. Despite significant progress in the past few decades, the numerical solution of Kohn …

[HTML][HTML] Database of Wannier tight-binding Hamiltonians using high-throughput density functional theory

KF Garrity, K Choudhary - Scientific data, 2021 - nature.com
Wannier tight-binding Hamiltonians (WTBH) provide a computationally efficient way to
predict electronic properties of materials. In this work, we develop a computational workflow …

Automated mixing of maximally localized Wannier functions into target manifolds

J Qiao, G Pizzi, N Marzari - npj Computational Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) are widely used in electronic-
structure calculations. We have recently developed automated approaches to generate …

Optimal decay of Wannier functions in Chern and quantum Hall insulators

D Monaco, G Panati, A Pisante, S Teufel - … in Mathematical Physics, 2018 - Springer
We investigate the localization properties of independent electrons in a periodic
background, possibly including a periodic magnetic field, as eg in Chern insulators and in …

Construction of maximally-localized Wannier functions using crystal symmetry

T Koretsune - Computer Physics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, we show two methods concerning constructions of Maximally localized
Wannier functions (MLWFs) using crystal symmetry. The first one is to compute input …

Projectability disentanglement for accurate and automated electronic-structure Hamiltonians

J Qiao, G Pizzi, N Marzari - npj Computational Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Maximally-localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) are broadly used to characterize
the electronic structure of materials. Generally, one can construct MLWFs describing isolated …

The Wannier-Functions Software Ecosystem for Materials Simulations

A Marrazzo, S Beck, ER Margine, N Marzari… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Over the last two decades, following the early developments on maximally-localized
Wannier functions, an ecosystem of electronic-structure simulation techniques and software …

Bulk localized transport states in infinite and finite quasicrystals via magnetic aperiodicity

D Johnstone, MJ Colbrook, AEB Nielsen, P Öhberg… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Robust edge transport can occur when charged particles in crystalline lattices interact with
an applied external magnetic field. Such systems have a spectrum composed of bands of …