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Published August 30, 2019 | Version v1
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Automated high-throughput Wannierisation

  • 1. Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, 19 JJ Thomson Avenue Cambridge UK and Departments of Materials and Physics, and the Thomas Young Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
  • 2. Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS) and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 3. Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH, UK
  • 4. Departments of Materials and Physics, and the Thomas Young Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK

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Maximally-localised Wannier functions (MLWFs) are routinely used to compute from first- principles advanced materials properties that require very dense Brillouin zone integration and to build accurate tight-binding models for scale-bridging simulations. At the same time, high- thoughput (HT) computational materials design is an emergent field that promises to accelerate the reliable and cost-effective design and optimisation of new materials with target properties. The use of MLWFs in HT workflows has been hampered by the fact that generating MLWFs automatically and robustly without any user intervention and for arbitrary materials is, in general, very challenging. We address this problem directly by proposing a procedure for automatically generating MLWFs for HT frameworks. Our approach is based on the selected columns of the density matrix method (SCDM) and we present the details of its implementation in an AiiDA workflow. We apply our approach to a dataset of 200 bulk crystalline materials that span a wide structural and chemical space. We assess the quality of our MLWFs in terms of the accuracy of the band-structure interpolation that they provide as compared to the band-structure obtained via full first-principles calculations. Finally, we provide here a downloadable virtual machine that allows to reproduce the results of this paper, including all first-principles and atomistic simulations as well as the computational workflows.

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Valerio Vitale, Giovanni Pizzi, Antimo Marrazzo, Jonathan Yates, Nicola Marzari, Arash Mostofi, arXiv:1909.00433 (2019)