Wannier decay and the Thouless conjecture

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Hauptverfasser: Becker, Simon, Tao, Zhongkai, Yang, Mengxuan
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author Becker, Simon
Tao, Zhongkai
Yang, Mengxuan
author_facet Becker, Simon
Tao, Zhongkai
Yang, Mengxuan
contents Non-trivial Chern classes pose an obstruction to the existence of exponentially decaying Wannier functions which provide natural bases for spectral subspaces. For non-trivial Bloch bundles, we obtain decay rates of Wannier functions in dimensions $d=2,3$. For $d=2$, we construct Wannier functions with full asymptotics and optimal decay rate $\mathcal{O}(|x|^{-2})$ as conjectured by Thouless; for $d=3$, we construct Wannier functions with the uniform decay rate $\mathcal{O}(|x|^{-7/3})$.
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spellingShingle Wannier decay and the Thouless conjecture
Becker, Simon
Tao, Zhongkai
Yang, Mengxuan
Mathematical Physics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Spectral Theory
Non-trivial Chern classes pose an obstruction to the existence of exponentially decaying Wannier functions which provide natural bases for spectral subspaces. For non-trivial Bloch bundles, we obtain decay rates of Wannier functions in dimensions $d=2,3$. For $d=2$, we construct Wannier functions with full asymptotics and optimal decay rate $\mathcal{O}(|x|^{-2})$ as conjectured by Thouless; for $d=3$, we construct Wannier functions with the uniform decay rate $\mathcal{O}(|x|^{-7/3})$.
title Wannier decay and the Thouless conjecture
topic Mathematical Physics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Spectral Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01999