Construction of Wannier functions from localized atomic-like orbitals

Details Construction of Wannier functions from localized atomic-like orbitals Construction of Wannier functions from localized atomic-like orbitals

2006-08-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608528v1

Phys. Rev. B 75, 045110 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

13 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.75.045110

The problem of construction of the Wannier functions (WFs) in a restricted Hilbert space of eigenstates of the one-electron Hamiltonian $\hat{H}$ (forming the so-called low-energy part of the spectrum) can be formulated in several different ways. One possibility is to use the projector-operator techniques, which pick up a set of trial atomic orbitals and project them onto the given Hilbert space. Another possibility is to employ the downfolding method, which eliminates the high-energy part of the spectrum and incorporates all related to it properties into the energy-dependence of an effective Hamiltonian. We show that by modifying the high-energy part of the spectrum of the original Hamiltonian $\hat{H}$, which is rather irrelevant to the construction of WFs in the low-energy part of the spectrum, these two methods can be formulated in an absolutely exact and identical form, so that the main difference between them is reduced to the choice of the trial orbitals. Concerning the latter part of the problem, we argue that an optimal choice for trial orbitals can be based on the maximization of the site-diagonal part of the density matrix. The main idea is illustrated for a simple toy model, consisting of only two bands, as well as for a more realistic example of $t_{2g}$ bands in V$_2$O$_3$. An analogy with the search of the ground state of a many-electron system is also discussed.

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