WannierTools

WannierTools: an open-source software package for novel topological materials

Source on Github : quanshengwu/wannier_tools.

You can find more useful information on website https://www.wanniertools.org.

Aiming to investigate topological properties, electronic structures and transport properties of

• Electron systems (Tested)

• Phonon systems (Testing)

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Outline

• 1. Updates
• 2. Preliminaries
  • 2.1. Installation of WannierTools (Linux or Mac)
  • 2.2. Introduction of input files
  • 2.3. Capabilities of WannierTools
  • 2.4. Symmetrization of wannier90_hr.dat New usesful for ir2tb
• 3. Tutorial: learning WannierTools through examples
  • 3.1. Bi2Se3 (3D strong TI)
  • 3.2. MoS2 (2D QSHE)
  • 3.3. WTe2 (Type II Weyl semimetal)
  • 3.4. IrF4 (Nodal Chain metals)
  • 3.5. FeSi (Weyl point in Phonon system)
• 4. WannierTools’s citations upto March 6 2020

Citations

Please cite this paper when using WannierTools for your researchs:

@article{WU2017,
title = "WannierTools : An open-source software package for novel topological materials",
journal = "Computer Physics Communications",
volume = "224",
pages = "405 - 416",
year = "2018",
issn = "0010-4655",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2017.09.033",
url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010465517303442",
author = "QuanSheng Wu and ShengNan Zhang and Hai-Feng Song and Matthias Troyer and Alexey A. Soluyanov",
keywords = "Novel topological materials, Topological number, Surface state, Tight-binding model"
}

Correspondence

Please report bugs to wuquansheng at gmail.com.

Licence

The WannierTools code is licensed under GPLv3. The licence text in the LICENSE file is included in the root directory of the WannierTools distribution.

Authors and contributions

WannierTools 2.x have been written by :

• QuanSheng Wu (EPFL, Switzerland)

• ShengNan Zhang (EPFL, Switzerland)

Contributors to the code include:

• Changming Yue (IOP CAS, Beijing, China): Tight binding symmetrization, phononTB

• Yifei Guan (EPFL, Switzerland): Landau level (2018)

• Tiantian Zhang (IOP, CAS, Beijing, China) : phonon LO-TO

• Yi Liu (BNU, Beijing, China): Runge-Kutta integration (2018)

• Hanqi Pi (IOP CAS, Beijing, China): Anomalous Nerest Effect (2022)

• Xiangyu Zhou (IOP CAS, Beijing, China) : Documenetation updated to version 2.6.2 (2022)

Sponsors

This work was sponsored by the following institutes: