<div dir="ltr">Dear all<div> I am calculating the hopping parameters of monolayer and bulk MoS2 using Wannier90. I have got good convergence of the MLWF basis for both cases. The Hamiltonian in WF basis for the monolayer is fine and the matrix element (hopping parameters) looks like:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div> 0 0 0 1 1 -7.812224 0.000000</div><div> 0 0 0 2 1 0.378757 0.000000</div><div> 0 0 0 3 1 -0.161374 0.000000</div><div> 0 0 0 4 1 0.378757 0.000000</div>
<div> 0 0 0 5 1 0.378757 0.000000</div><div> 0 0 0 6 1 -0.161374 0.000000</div><div> 0 0 0 7 1 0.378757 0.000000</div><div><br></div><div style>There are three WFs for each S atom (2 S atoms in total) and one WFs for Mo atom. From this table it is clear that the hopping parameters for equivalent hoppings (e.g. hopping from WF 2 to WF 1 and hopping from WF 4 to WF 1) are identical.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>However, for the bulk MoS2, I got the following hopping parameters:</div><div style><br></div><div style><div> 0 0 0 1 1 6.788221 0.000000</div><div> 0 0 0 2 1 0.002303 0.000000</div>
<div> 0 0 0 3 1 0.167082 0.000000</div><div> 0 0 0 4 1 -0.375031 0.000000</div><div> 0 0 0 5 1 0.374977 0.000000</div><div> 0 0 0 6 1 0.167082 0.000000</div>
<div> 0 0 0 7 1 -0.375031 0.000000</div><div> 0 0 0 8 1 0.374977 0.000000</div><div> 0 0 0 9 1 -0.000013 0.000000</div><div> 0 0 0 10 1 0.000201 0.000000</div>
<div> 0 0 0 11 1 -0.000201 0.000000</div><div> 0 0 0 12 1 -0.010587 0.000000</div><div> 0 0 0 13 1 -0.005480 0.000000</div><div> 0 0 0 14 1 0.005477 0.000000</div>
<div><br></div></div><div style>What puzzles me is that now I get a complete different hopping parameters for equivalent hoppings, e.g. hopping from WF 4 to WF 1 and that from WF 5 to WF 1. I have try many possible sets of initial projections but they give similar results. Could some one help if my understand of the Hamiltonian in WF basis is incorrect.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Best regards!</div>-- <br>Lin Xie<br>Beijing National Center for Electron Microscopy<br>Department of Material Science and Engineering<br>Tsinghua University<br>Beijing, PR of China
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