Why are insulators insulating and metals conducting

By Raffaele Resta. 2002

142 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/688fa278402f44fc4b97152502d3e47957e3ad88

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. D. Vanderbilt
2. Ivo Souza
3. Nicola Marzari
4. Arash A. Mostofi
5. Jonathan R. Yates
6. Raffaele Resta
7. Feliciano Giustino
8. S. Tsirkin

In Materials Chemistry

1. D. Vanderbilt
2. Nicola Marzari
3. Ivo Souza
4. Jonathan R. Yates
5. Vadim A. Markel
6. Alexander A. Balandin

Citations in the corpus

• Maximally-localized Wannier Functions: Theory and Applications (2011, background): “Resta and coworkers have defined a measure of localization (Resta, 2002, 2006; Resta and Sorella, 1999; Sgiarovello et al., 2001) that distinguishes insulators from metals quite generally, and have shown that this localization measure reduces, in the absence of two-particle interactions or…”
• Theory of Polarization: A Modern Approach (2007, methodology): “Here we give a flavor of the approach, while we refer to the literature for more complete accounts [44,46,47].”