We generalize Prodan’s construction of radially localized generalized Wannier bases [E. Prodan, J. Math. Phys. 56(11), 113511 (2015)] to gapped quantum systems without time-reversal symmetry, including, in particular, magnetic Schrödinger operators, and we prove some basic properties of such bases. We investigate whether this notion might be relevant to topological transport by considering the explicitly solvable case of the Landau operator.
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