Orbital magnetization in crystalline solids: Multi-band insulators, Chern insulators, and metals
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Davide Ceresoli,1 T. Thonhauser,2 David Vanderbilt,2 and R. Resta3 1Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA/ISAS) and DEMOCRITOS, via Beirut 2-4, 34014 Trieste, Italy 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA 3Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università di Trieste and DEMOCRITOS, strada Costiera 11, 34014 Trieste, Italy Received 7 December 2005; revised manuscript received 6 March 2006; published 12 July 2006
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