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<div dir="ltr">Thank you for the detailed response and kind help! In that case I think it’s better to resort to quantum simulation then, and I’ll contact you if I have other related problems.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks again for all the help and discussion!</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Best regards,</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>发件人:</b> Stepan Tsirkin <stepan.tsirkin@ehu.eus><br>
<b>发送时间:</b> Tuesday, October 31, 2023 9:08:21 AM<br>
<b>收件人:</b> Mouyang Cheng <vipandyc@mit.edu>; wannier@lists.quantum-espresso.org <wannier@lists.quantum-espresso.org><br>
<b>主题:</b> Re: 回复: [Wannier] Query about wannier90 calculations on disordered supercell</font>
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<p>Hi Mouyang,</p>
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<p>Tecnically it is ok to wannierise from a 1x1x1 when the unit cell is big. For example, in fig 5a of this paper
<a class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-648X/ab51ff/meta#cmab51fff05">
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-648X/ab51ff/meta#cmab51fff05</a> an example is shown of a 12-atom carbon chain that was wannierised from Gamma-point only and the dispersion is restored with the MDRS method. So, technicall Boltzwann can do the
calculation even if the wannierisation started from Gamma-point only. It will correctly interpolate the bands to any grid of k-points and take the derivatives.</p>
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<p>But if it makes sense physically - is another question. The semiclassical equations of motion (underlying the Boltzwann) are defined for crystals. I guess the condition is that mean-free-path is much larger then the size of the unit cell.
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<p>May be you can use the Wannier model to study quantum transport (See chapter 7 of the user guide
<a class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wannier-developers/wannier90/v3.1.0/doc/compiled_docs/user_guide.pdf">
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wannier-developers/wannier90/v3.1.0/doc/compiled_docs/user_guide.pdf</a>) but I am not an expert in that.</p>
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">On 31.10.23 02:02, Mouyang Cheng wrote:<br>
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Dear Stepan,<br>
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Thanks for the reply, and sorry for my late response. Yes, I did try to make the k-mesh 1*1*1 and perform the wannierlization at this accuracy. I think my question is whether this approach gives a reasonable tight-binding model at the DFT-level? Because I feel
strange for wannier90 only fitting one k-point for each energy level to get so many localized wavefunctions.<br>
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Another problem is that at first I tried to perform further transport simulation in Boltzwann, but Boltzwann calculation requires information on multiple k-points to do derivatives, (i.e. it needs a whole band). So I guess the alternative is to wannierlize
first, then carry out tight-binding simulation on transport by other means?<br>
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Really appreciate your advice and help!<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Mouyang</div>
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<b>发送时间:</b> 2023年10月27日 20:42<br>
<b>收件人:</b> Mouyang Cheng <a class="x_moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:vipandyc@mit.edu">
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<b>主题:</b> Re: [Wannier] Query about wannier90 calculations on disordered supercell</font>
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<p>Dear Mouyang,</p>
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<p>As I understand, there is no fundamental obstruction to make the k-mesh 1x1x1, So you will have a Gamma-only sampling. Although I do not have experience in that. Did you try that, and did you come across some difficulties?</p>
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Dear Wannier90 developers,<br>
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This is Mouyang Cheng, a student at MIT. I'm interested in generating wannier orbitals for disordered systems, e.g. amorphous 2D graphene sheet (large disorder). I've read several articles successfully coping with applying generalized Wannier orbitals on disordered
systems like:<br>
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0038109898001756" id="LPlnkOWALinkPreview" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink x_x_ContentPasted0">Maximally-localized Wannier functions for disordered systems: Application to amorphous silicon - ScienceDirect</a>;<br>
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However as to my understanding in the user manual of Wannier90, we need to specify the Kmesh and number of bands to do wannier fit. But for a large supercell (~200 atoms) it is only practical for DFT to deal with only one Gamma point for BZ, and there is no
concept of band in non-crystals.<br>
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<b>So my question is: can Wannier90 deal with such an amorphous supercell and get a tight-binding Hamiltonian?
</b>If not, could you give any suggestions on any other code or convenient methods; If yes, how does it work?<br>
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Thank you so much for taking your time reading this email and I would greatly appreciate any help or clarification.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Mouyang Cheng<br>
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NSE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
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