Optimally Localized Wannier Functions for 2D Chern Insulators
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| author | Gunawardana, Thivan M. Turner, Ari M. Barnett, Ryan |
| author_facet | Gunawardana, Thivan M. Turner, Ari M. Barnett, Ryan |
| contents | The construction of optimally localized Wannier functions (and Wannier functions in general) for a Chern insulator has been considered to be impossible owing to the fact that the second moment of such functions is generally infinite. In this manuscript, we propose a solution to this problem in the case of a single band. We accomplish this by drawing an analogy between the minimization of the variance and the minimization of the electrostatic energy of a periodic array of point charges in a smooth neutralizing background. In doing so, we obtain a natural regularization of the diverging variance and this leads to an analytical solution to the minimization problem. We demonstrate our results numerically for a particular model system. Furthermore, we show how the optimally localized Wannier functions provide a natural way of evaluating the electric polarization for a Chern insulator. |
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| spellingShingle | Optimally Localized Wannier Functions for 2D Chern Insulators Gunawardana, Thivan M. Turner, Ari M. Barnett, Ryan Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons The construction of optimally localized Wannier functions (and Wannier functions in general) for a Chern insulator has been considered to be impossible owing to the fact that the second moment of such functions is generally infinite. In this manuscript, we propose a solution to this problem in the case of a single band. We accomplish this by drawing an analogy between the minimization of the variance and the minimization of the electrostatic energy of a periodic array of point charges in a smooth neutralizing background. In doing so, we obtain a natural regularization of the diverging variance and this leads to an analytical solution to the minimization problem. We demonstrate our results numerically for a particular model system. Furthermore, we show how the optimally localized Wannier functions provide a natural way of evaluating the electric polarization for a Chern insulator. |
| title | Optimally Localized Wannier Functions for 2D Chern Insulators |
| topic | Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07242 |