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Accurate ab initio tight-binding Hamiltonians: Effective tools for electronic transport and optical spectroscopy from first principles

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D'Amico, P; Agapito, L; Catellani, A; Ruini, A; Curtarolo, S; Fornari, M; Nardelli, MB; Calzolari, A
Published in: Physical Review B
October 26, 2016

The calculations of electronic transport coefficients and optical properties require a very dense interpolation of the electronic band structure in reciprocal space that is computationally expensive and may have issues with band crossing and degeneracies. Capitalizing on a recently developed pseudoatomic orbital projection technique, we exploit the exact tight-binding representation of the first-principles electronic structure for the purposes of (i) providing an efficient strategy to explore the full band structure En(k), (ii) computing the momentum operator differentiating directly the Hamiltonian, and (iii) calculating the imaginary part of the dielectric function. This enables us to determine the Boltzmann transport coefficients and the optical properties within the independent particle approximation. In addition, the local nature of the tight-binding representation facilitates the calculation of the ballistic transport within the Landauer theory for systems with hundreds of atoms. In order to validate our approach we study the multivalley band structure of CoSb3 and a large core-shell nanowire using the ACBN0 functional. In CoSb3 we point the many band minima contributing to the electronic transport that enhance the thermoelectric properties; for the core-shell nanowire we identify possible mechanisms for photo-current generation and justify the presence of protected transport channels in the wire.

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Physical Review B

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2469-9969

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2469-9950

Publication Date

October 26, 2016

Volume

94

Issue

16

Related Subject Headings

  • 51 Physical sciences
  • 40 Engineering
  • 34 Chemical sciences
 

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D’Amico, P., Agapito, L., Catellani, A., Ruini, A., Curtarolo, S., Fornari, M., … Calzolari, A. (2016). Accurate ab initio tight-binding Hamiltonians: Effective tools for electronic transport and optical spectroscopy from first principles. Physical Review B, 94(16). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.165166
D’Amico, P., L. Agapito, A. Catellani, A. Ruini, S. Curtarolo, M. Fornari, M. B. Nardelli, and A. Calzolari. “Accurate ab initio tight-binding Hamiltonians: Effective tools for electronic transport and optical spectroscopy from first principles.” Physical Review B 94, no. 16 (October 26, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.165166.
D’Amico P, Agapito L, Catellani A, Ruini A, Curtarolo S, Fornari M, et al. Accurate ab initio tight-binding Hamiltonians: Effective tools for electronic transport and optical spectroscopy from first principles. Physical Review B. 2016 Oct 26;94(16).
D’Amico, P., et al. “Accurate ab initio tight-binding Hamiltonians: Effective tools for electronic transport and optical spectroscopy from first principles.” Physical Review B, vol. 94, no. 16, Oct. 2016. Scopus, doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.94.165166.
D’Amico P, Agapito L, Catellani A, Ruini A, Curtarolo S, Fornari M, Nardelli MB, Calzolari A. Accurate ab initio tight-binding Hamiltonians: Effective tools for electronic transport and optical spectroscopy from first principles. Physical Review B. 2016 Oct 26;94(16).

Published In

Physical Review B

DOI

EISSN

2469-9969

ISSN

2469-9950

Publication Date

October 26, 2016

Volume

94

Issue

16

Related Subject Headings

  • 51 Physical sciences
  • 40 Engineering
  • 34 Chemical sciences