DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Local representation of the electronic dielectric response function

Abstract

We present a local representation of the electronic dielectric response function, based on a spatial partition of the dielectric response into contributions from each occupied Wannier orbital using a generalized density functional perturbation theory. This procedure is fully ab initio, and therefore allows us to rigorously define local metrics, such as “bond polarizability,” on Wannier centers. We show that the locality of the bare response function is determined by the locality of three quantities: Wannier functions of the occupied manifold, the density matrix, and the Hamiltonian matrix. Furthermore, in systems with a gap, the bare dielectric response is exponentially localized, which supports the physical picture of the dielectric response function as a collection of interacting local responses that can be captured by a tight-binding model.

Authors:
 [1];  [1]
  1. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1235871
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1228805
Report Number(s):
BNL-111669-2015-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 1098-0121; PRBMDO; R&D Project: 16068; KC0403020
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC00112704; SC0012704; AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 92; Journal Issue: 24; Journal ID: ISSN 1098-0121
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

Citation Formats

Lu, Deyu, and Ge, Xiaochuan. Local representation of the electronic dielectric response function. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.92.241107.
Lu, Deyu, & Ge, Xiaochuan. Local representation of the electronic dielectric response function. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.241107
Lu, Deyu, and Ge, Xiaochuan. Fri . "Local representation of the electronic dielectric response function". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.241107. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1235871.
@article{osti_1235871,
title = {Local representation of the electronic dielectric response function},
author = {Lu, Deyu and Ge, Xiaochuan},
abstractNote = {We present a local representation of the electronic dielectric response function, based on a spatial partition of the dielectric response into contributions from each occupied Wannier orbital using a generalized density functional perturbation theory. This procedure is fully ab initio, and therefore allows us to rigorously define local metrics, such as “bond polarizability,” on Wannier centers. We show that the locality of the bare response function is determined by the locality of three quantities: Wannier functions of the occupied manifold, the density matrix, and the Hamiltonian matrix. Furthermore, in systems with a gap, the bare dielectric response is exponentially localized, which supports the physical picture of the dielectric response function as a collection of interacting local responses that can be captured by a tight-binding model.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.92.241107},
journal = {Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics},
number = 24,
volume = 92,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 11 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Fri Dec 11 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}

Journal Article:

Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 15 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Save / Share:

Works referenced in this record:

Electronic excitations: density-functional versus many-body Green’s-function approaches
journal, June 2002


Empirical correction to density functional theory for van der Waals interactions
journal, January 2002

  • Wu, Qin; Yang, Weitao
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 116, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.1424928

Accurate Molecular Van Der Waals Interactions from Ground-State Electron Density and Free-Atom Reference Data
journal, February 2009


Distributed polarizabilities
journal, December 1985


Distributed polarizabilities using the topological theory of atoms in molecules
journal, March 1994


Practical schemes for distributed polarizabilities
journal, April 1993


Distributed dispersion: A new approach
journal, September 2003

  • Williams, Greg J.; Stone, Anthony J.
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 119, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.1594722

Distributed polarizabilities obtained using a constrained density-fitting algorithm
journal, January 2006

  • Misquitta, Alston J.; Stone, Anthony J.
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 124, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.2150828

The Structure of Electronic Excitation Levels in Insulating Crystals
journal, August 1937


Maximally localized generalized Wannier functions for composite energy bands
journal, November 1997


Maximally localized Wannier functions for entangled energy bands
journal, December 2001


Maximally localized Wannier functions: Theory and applications
journal, October 2012

  • Marzari, Nicola; Mostofi, Arash A.; Yates, Jonathan R.
  • Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 84, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.84.1419

Van der Waals Interactions in DFT Made Easy by Wannier Functions
journal, February 2008


Theory of atomic-scale dielectric permittivity at insulator interfaces
journal, April 2005


Macroscopic polarization in crystalline dielectrics: the geometric phase approach
journal, July 1994


Dielectric Properties of Ice and Liquid Water from First-Principles Calculations
journal, April 2008


Phonons and related crystal properties from density-functional perturbation theory
journal, July 2001

  • Baroni, Stefano; de Gironcoli, Stefano; Dal Corso, Andrea
  • Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 73, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.73.515

wannier90: A tool for obtaining maximally-localised Wannier functions
journal, May 2008

  • Mostofi, Arash A.; Yates, Jonathan R.; Lee, Young-Su
  • Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 178, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2007.11.016

QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
journal, September 2009

  • Giannozzi, Paolo; Baroni, Stefano; Bonini, Nicola
  • Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 21, Issue 39, Article No. 395502
  • DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/39/395502

Analytic Properties of Bloch Waves and Wannier Functions
journal, August 1959


Bloch Bundles, Marzari-Vanderbilt Functional and Maximally Localized Wannier Functions
journal, June 2013

  • Panati, Gianluca; Pisante, Adriano
  • Communications in Mathematical Physics, Vol. 322, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1007/s00220-013-1741-y

Ab initio Calculation of van der Waals Bonded Molecular Crystals
journal, May 2009


GW quasiparticle spectra from occupied states only
journal, March 2010


Ab initio calculations of optical absorption spectra: Solution of the Bethe–Salpeter equation within density matrix perturbation theory
journal, October 2010

  • Rocca, Dario; Lu, Deyu; Galli, Giulia
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 133, Issue 16
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.3494540

Decay rates for inverses of band matrices
journal, January 1984


Quantum Theory of the Dielectric Constant in Real Solids
journal, April 1962


Dielectric Constant with Local Field Effects Included
journal, January 1963


Quantum dissipation driven by electron transfer within a single molecule investigated with atomic force microscopy
journal, March 2020


Distributed Polarizabilities
book, January 2013


Exponential Decay Properties of Wannier Functions and Related Quantities
text, January 2001


Distributed polarizabilities using the topological theory of atoms in molecules
conference, January 1995

  • Ángyán, János G.; Jansen, Georg; Loos, Michel
  • The first European conference on computational chemistry (E.C.C.C.1), AIP Conference Proceedings
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.47847

Van der Waals interactions in DFT made easy by Wannier functions
text, January 2007


Maximally localized Wannier functions: Theory and applications
text, January 2011


Maximally-localized Wannier functions for entangled energy bands
text, January 2001


Works referencing / citing this record:

Communication: Dielectric properties of condensed systems composed of fragments
journal, August 2018

  • Pan, Ding; Govoni, Marco; Galli, Giulia
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 149, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.5044636

Molecular polarizability of water from local dielectric response theory
journal, August 2017


Visualizing electronic excitations with the particle-hole map: orbital localization and metric space analysis
journal, July 2018