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Quantum Mechanics for Solids

Free electron model, nearly free electrons, tight binding, DFT foundations, and exchange-correlation functionals

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  • 1. The Free Electron Gas
  • 2. Nearly Free Electrons and Band Gaps
  • 3. Tight-Binding Model
  • 4. The Many-Body Problem
  • 5. Density Functional Theory
  • 6. Kohn-Sham Equations
  • 7. Exchange-Correlation Functionals
  • 8. Pseudopotentials and PAW
  • 9. Plane-Wave Basis Sets
  • 10. Self-Consistent Field Cycle
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