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<div class="">There are several points at which limitations may apply:</div>
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<div class="">+ The underlying electronic structure calculation: a 500 atom DFT simulation would need significant computational resources</div>
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<div class="">+ Generating the Wannier function basis: for transport calculations you would most likely want to use the disentanglement algorithms to obtain an atom-centred WF basis; for a 500 atom system I expect that this would need some careful thought and
effort to do successfully (see my earlier post about projections and energy windows)</div>
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<div class="">+ Computing the quantum conductance: the matrix operations (in particular the matrix inversions) in the Landauer transport code are not parallelised yet so the amount of memory attached to your processor will determine whether this is possible.
A 500 atom “conductor” region, assuming 4 Wannier functions per atom, would give you a 2,000 x 2,000 matrix to be inverted for example.</div>
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<div class="">Best wishes,</div>
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<div class="">On 5 Apr 2017, at 14:08, Faride Hajiheidari <<a href="mailto:hajiheidari.faride@gmail.com" class="">hajiheidari.faride@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">Dear all,<br class="">
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I would like to start the transport calculations with Wannier90. My systems are double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs) with the maximum 500 atoms per unit cell.
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My question is if there is a limit size for the system that can be studied by Wannier90 approach in the most efficient way.
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