Wannier90 as a community code: new features and applications

G Pizzi, V Vitale, R Arita, S Blügel… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
W annier90 is an open-source computer program for calculating maximally-localised
Wannier functions (MLWFs) from a set of Bloch states. It is interfaced to many widely used …

Z2Pack: Numerical implementation of hybrid Wannier centers for identifying topological materials

D Gresch, G Autes, OV Yazyev, M Troyer, D Vanderbilt… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The intense theoretical and experimental interest in topological insulators and semimetals
has established band structure topology as a fundamental material property. Consequently …

Anyonic topological order in twisted equivariant differential (TED) K-theory

H Sati, U Schreiber - Reviews in Mathematical Physics, 2023 - World Scientific
While the classification of noninteracting crystalline topological insulator phases by
equivariant K-theory has become widely accepted, its generalization to anyonic interacting …

Wannier functions and invariants in time-reversal symmetric topological insulators

HD Cornean, D Monaco, S Teufel - Reviews in Mathematical …, 2017 - World Scientific
We provide a constructive proof of exponentially localized Wannier functions and related
Bloch frames in 1-and 2-dimensional time-reversal symmetric (TRS) topological insulators …

Topological bloch oscillations

J Hoeller, A Alexandradinata - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Bloch oscillations originate from the translational symmetry of crystals. These oscillations
occur with a fundamental period that a semiclassical wave packet takes to traverse a …

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 …

Invariants of Topological Insulators as Geometric Obstructions

D Fiorenza, D Monaco, G Panati - Communications in Mathematical …, 2016 - Springer
We consider a gapped periodic quantum system with time-reversal symmetry of fermionic (or
odd) type, ie the time-reversal operator squares to-1-1. We investigate the existence of …

On the construction of composite Wannier functions

HD Cornean, I Herbst, G Nenciu - Annales Henri Poincaré, 2016 - Springer
We give a constructive proof for the existence of a Bloch basis of rank NN which is both
smooth (real analytic) and periodic with respect to its d d-dimensional quasi-momenta, when …

Robust determination of maximally localized Wannier functions

É Cancès, A Levitt, G Panati, G Stoltz - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We propose an algorithm to determine maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWFs). This
algorithm, based on recent theoretical developments, does not require any physical input …

Symmetry and localization in periodic crystals: triviality of Bloch bundles with a fermionic time-reversal symmetry

D Monaco, G Panati - Acta Applicandae Mathematicae, 2015 - Springer
We describe some applications of group-and bundle-theoretic methods in solid state
physics, showing how symmetries lead to a proof of the localization of electrons in gapped …