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We present a three-band tight-binding (TB) model for describing the low-energy physics in monolayers of group-VIB transition metal dichalcogenides $MX_2$ ($M$=Mo, W; $X$=S, Se, Te). As the conduction and valence band edges are predominantly contributed by the $d_{z^{2}}$, $d_{xy}$, and $d_{x^{2}-y^{2}}$ orbitals of $M$ atoms, the TB model is constructed using these three orbitals based on the symmetries of the monolayers. Parameters of the TB model are fitted from the first-principles energy bands for all $MX_2$ monolayers. The TB model involving only the nearest-neighbor $M$-$M$ hoppings is sufficient to capture the band-edge properties in the $pm K$ valleys, including the energy dispersions as well as the Berry curvatures. The TB model involving up to the third-nearest-neighbor $M$-$M$ hoppings can well reproduce the energy bands in the entire Brillouin zone. Spin-orbit coupling in valence bands is well accounted for by including the on-site spin-orbit interactions of $M$ atoms. The conduction band also exhibits a small valley-dependent spin splitting which has an overall sign difference between Mo$X_{2}$ and W$X_{2}$. We discuss the origins of these corrections to the three-band model. The three-band TB model developed here is efficient to account for low-energy physics in $MX_2$ monolayers, and its simplicity can be particularly useful in the study of many-body physics and physics of edge states.
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We present an accurate textit{ab-initio} tight-binding hamiltonian for the transition-metal dichalcogenides, MoS$_2$, MoSe$_2$, WS$_2$, WSe$_2$, with a minimal basis (the textit{d} orbitals for the metal atoms and textit{p} orbitals for the chalcogen atoms) based on a transformation of the Kohn-Sham density function theory (DFT) hamiltonian to a basis of maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWF). The truncated tight-binding hamiltonian (TBH), with only on-site, first and partial second neighbor interactions, including spin-orbit coupling, provides a simple physical picture and the symmetry of the main band-structure features. Interlayer interactions between adjacent layers are modeled by transferable hopping terms between the chalcogen textit{p} orbitals. The full-range tight-binding hamiltonian (FTBH) can be reduced to hybrid-orbital k $cdot$ p effective hamiltonians near the band extrema that captures important low-energy excitations. These textit{ab-initio} hamiltonians can serve as the starting point for applications to interacting many-body physics including optical transitions and Berry curvature of bands, of which we give some examples.
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