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# Simple and efficient way of speeding up transmission calculations with $$k$$-point sampling

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### Abstract

The transmissions as functions of energy are central for electron or phonon transport in the Landauer transport picture. We suggest a simple and computationally "cheap" post-processing scheme to interpolate transmission functions over $$k$$-points to get smooth well-converged average transmission functions. This is relevant for data obtained using typical "expensive" first principles calculations where the leads/electrodes are described by periodic boundary conditions. We show examples of transport in graphene structures where a speed-up of an order of magnitude is easily obtained.

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We discuss a method for determining the optimally-localized set of generalized Wannier functions associated with a set of Bloch bands in a crystalline solid. By generalized Wannier functions'' we mean a set of localized orthonormal orbitals spanning the same space as the specified set of Bloch bands. Although we minimize a functional that represents the total spread sum_n [ _n - _n^2 ] of the Wannier functions in real space, our method proceeds directly from the Bloch functions as represented on a mesh of k-points, and carries out the minimization in a space of unitary matrices U_mn^k describing the rotation among the Bloch bands at each k-point. The method is thus suitable for use in connection with conventional electronic-structure codes. The procedure also returns the total electric polarization as well as the location of each Wannier center. Sample results for Si, GaAs, molecular C2H4, and LiCl will be presented.
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An efficient method is described to handle mesh indexes in multidimensional problems like numerical integration of partial differential equations, lattice model simulations, and determination of atomic neighbor lists. By creating an extended mesh, beyond the periodic unit cell, the stride in memory between equivalent pairs of mesh points is independent of their position within the cell. This allows to contract the mesh indexes of all dimensions into a single index, avoiding modulo and other implicit index operations.
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###### Journal
13 May 2015
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10.3762/bjnano.6.164
1505.03267