Orbital magnetization in periodic insulators
| dc.creator | Thonhauser, T. | |
| dc.creator | Ceresoli, Davide | |
| dc.creator | Vanderbilt, David | |
| dc.creator | Resta, R. | |
| dc.date | 2005-05-20 | |
| dc.date | 2005-06-16 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T06:18:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T06:18:26Z | |
| dc.description | Working in the Wannier representation, we derive an expression for the orbital magnetization of a periodic insulator. The magnetization is shown to be comprised of two contributions, an obvious one associated with the internal circulation of bulk-like Wannier functions in the interior, and an unexpected one arising from net currents carried by Wannier functions near the surface. Each contribution can be expressed as a bulk property in terms of Bloch functions in a gauge-invariant way. Our expression is verified by comparing numerical tight-binding calculations for finite and periodic samples. | |
| dc.description | submitted to PRL; signs corrected in Eqs. (11), (12), (19), and (20) | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0505518 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0505518 | |
| dc.identifier | Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137205 (2005). | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.137205 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/94734 | |
| dc.subject | Materials Science | |
| dc.subject | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics | |
| dc.title | Orbital magnetization in periodic insulators | |
| dc.type | text |