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First-Principles Approach to Insulators in Finite Electric Fields

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Souza, Ivo, Íñiguez, Jorge, Vanderbilt, David·2002·Physical Review Letters
DOI 10.1103/physrevlett.89.117602
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We describe a method for computing the response of an insulator to a static, homogeneous electric field. It consists of iteratively minimizing an electric enthalpy functional expressed in terms of occupied Bloch-like states on a uniform grid of k points. The functional has equivalent local minima below a critical field E(c) that depends inversely on the density of k points; the disappearance of the minima at E(c) signals the onset of Zener breakdown. We illustrate the procedure by computing the piezoelectric and nonlinear dielectric susceptibility tensors of III-V semiconductors.

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Authors
Souza, I., Íñiguez, J., & Vanderbilt, D.
Venue
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Published
2002-08-26
Volume
89
Issue
11
Pages
117602-117602
ISSN
  • 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
  • 1079-7114
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.89.117602
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501
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en
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