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Promoting Electrons

The second method used to calculate excited states within QMC is that of promoting a single electron from a state in the valence band to a state in the conduction band (see figure gif). An excitation energy or gap can then be defined as the difference in energy between this new excited state and the ground state of the system,

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Andrew Williamson
Tue Nov 19 17:11:34 GMT 1996