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High-throughput screening of Weyl semimetals

Nicola Marzari, Davide Grassano, Davide Campi

Topological Weyl semimetals represent a novel class of nontrivial materials, where band crossings with linear dispersions take place at generic momenta across reciprocal space. These crossings give rise to low -energy properties akin to those of Weyl fermi ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Automated all-functionals infrared and Raman spectra

Nicola Marzari, Lorenzo Bastonero

Infrared and Raman spectroscopies are ubiquitous techniques employed in many experimental laboratories, thanks to their fast and non-destructive nature able to capture materials' features as spectroscopic fingerprints. Nevertheless, these measurements freq ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Towards high-throughput many-body perturbation theory: efficient algorithms and automated workflows

Giovanni Pizzi, Antimo Marrazzo, Junfeng Qiao, Miki Bonacci, Andrea Ferretti

The automation of ab initio simulations is essential in view of performing high-throughput (HT) computational screenings oriented to the discovery of novel materials with desired physical properties. In this work, we propose algorithms and implementations ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Automated mixing of maximally localized Wannier functions into target manifolds

Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi, Junfeng Qiao

Maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) are widely used in electronic-structure calculations. We have recently developed automated approaches to generate MLWFs that represent natural tight-binding sets of atomic-like orbitals; these describe accurate ...

Nature Portfolio2023

HP - A code for the calculation of Hubbard parameters using density-functional perturbation theory

Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov, Matteo Cococcioni

We introduce HP, an implementation of density-functional perturbation theory, designed to compute Hubbard parameters (on-site U and inter-site V ) in the framework of DFT+U and DFT+U+V. The code does not require the use of computationally expensive superce ...

ELSEVIER2022

Oxygen Evolution at the BiVO4-Water Interface: Mechanism of the Water Dehydrogenation Reaction

Alfredo Pasquarello, Julia Anna Wiktor, Sai Lyu

We study the water dehydrogenation reaction at the BiVO4(010)-water interface by combining nudged-elastic-band calculations and electronic structure calculations at the hybrid functional level. We investigate the pathway and the kinetic barrier for the adi ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Magnonic crystals with reconfigurable magnetic defects for spin-based microwave electronics

Korbinian Baumgärtl

Collective spin excitations can propagate in magnetically ordered materials in the form of waves. These so-called spin waves (SWs) or magnons are promising for low-power beyond-CMOS information processing, which does not rely anymore on the lossy movement ...

EPFL2021

Interaction of Confined Polaritons in Microcavity Structures

Morteza Navadeh Toupchi

A polariton is a quasiparticle formed from the coupling of a confined photon in a cavity to electronic excitation, like exciton in a semiconductor. This dissertation reports on series of experiments in confined polariton interaction by design, fabrication, ...

EPFL2021

Irvsp: To obtain irreducible representations of electronic states in the VASP

Quansheng Wu, Ziyi Wang

We present an open-source program irvsp, to compute irreducible representations of electronic states for all 230 space groups with an interface to the Vienna ab-initio Simulation Package. This code is fed with plane-wave-based wavefunctions (e.g. WAVECAR) ...

ELSEVIER2021

Wannier90 as a community code: new features and applications

Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi, Marco Gibertini, Antimo Marrazzo, Hyungjun Lee, Junfeng Qiao, Samuel Poncé, Lorenzo Paulatto, Daniel John Gilles Marchand

Wannier90 is an open-source computer program for calculating maximally-localised Wannier functions (MLWFs) from a set of Bloch states. It is interfaced to many widely used electronic-structure codes thanks to its independence from the basis sets representi ...

2020

Crystalline and correlated phases in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

Diego José Pasquier

This thesis is dedicated to the study of various aspects of the electronic structure of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) of chemical composition MX

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(where M is a transition metal atom and X= S, Se, Te), using a combination of \te ...

EPFL2019

Crystal field, ligand field, and interorbital effects in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides across the periodic table

Oleg Yazyev, Diego José Pasquier

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exist in two polymorphs, referred to as 1T and 1H, depending on the coordination sphere of the transition metal atom. The broken octahedral and trigonal prismatic symmetries lead to different cry ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Two-Dimensional Conical Dispersion in ZrTe5 Evidenced by Optical Spectroscopy

Helmuth Berger, Ana Akrap, Edoardo Martino

Zirconium pentatelluride was recently reported to be a 3D Dirac semimetal, with a single conical band, located at the center of the Brillouin zone. The cone's lack of protection by the lattice symmetry immediately sparked vast discussions about the size an ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Koopmans Meets Bethe-Salpeter: Excitonic Optical Spectra without GW

Nicola Marzari, Nicola Colonna, Paolo Umari

The Bethe Salpeter equation (BSE) can be applied to compute from first-principles optical spectra that include the effects of screened electron hole interactions. As input, BSE calculations require single-particle states, quasiparticle energy levels, and t ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Alignment of energy levels in amorphous oxides and at semiconductor-water interfaces

Zhendong Guo

We conduct a detailed investigation of defects in two representative amorphous oxides: amorphous Al2O3 (am-Al2O3) and TiO2 (am-TiO2), by combining ab initio molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and hybrid functional calculations. Our results indicate that o ...

EPFL2019

Electronic Structure and Topology of Novel Materials

Antimo Marrazzo

The ground and excited electronic states are responsible for several materials' properties. The modern capability of rapidly solving on a computer the fundamental equations of relativistic or semi-relativistic quantum mechanics allows to compute the electr ...

EPFL2019

Adjustable potential probes for band-gap predictions of extended systems through nonempirical hybrid functionals

Alfredo Pasquarello, Igor Reshetnyak, Thomas Bischoff

We describe a nonempirical procedure for achieving accurate band gaps of extended systems through the insertion of suitably defined potential probes. By enforcing Koopmans' condition on the resulting localized electronic states, we determine the optimal fr ...

2019

Self-consistent site-dependent DFT plus U study of stoichiometric and defective SrMnO3

Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov, Ulrich Aschauer, Matteo Cococcioni

We propose a self-consistent site-dependent Hubbard U approach for density functional theory (DFT)+U calculations of defects in complex transition metal oxides, using Hubbard parameters computed via linear response theory. The formation of a defect locally ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Automated construction of symmetrized Wannier-like tight-binding models from ab initio calculations

Quansheng Wu

Wannier tight-binding models are effective models constructed from first-principles calculations. As such, they bridge a gap between the accuracy of first-principles calculations and the computational simplicity of effective models. In this work, we extend ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2018

An experimentalist's guide to the matrix element in angle resolved photoemission

Simon Karl Moser

Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) is commonly known as a powerful probe of the one-electron removal spectral function in ordered solid state. With increasing efficiency of light sources and spectrometers, experiments over a wide range of em ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

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(where M is a transition metal atom and X= S, Se, Te), using a combination of \te ...

EPFL2019

Crystal field, ligand field, and interorbital effects in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides across the periodic table

Oleg Yazyev, Diego José Pasquier

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019