Calculating the Berry curvature of Bloch electrons using the KKR method
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M. Gradhand,1,4,* D. V. Fedorov,2 F. Pientka,2,3 P. Zahn,2 I. Mertig,1,2 and B. L. Györffy4 1Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, D-06120 Halle, Germany 2Institut für Physik, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, D-06099 Halle, Germany 3Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems and Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, D-14195 Berlin, Germany 4H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TH, United Kingdom (Received 22 March 2011; revised manuscript received 25 May 2011; published 5 August 2011)
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