Hartree type electronic band structure

This chapter begins a series of chapters devoted to electronic structure and transport properties. In the present chapter, the foundation for understanding band structures of crystalline solids is laid. The presumption is, of course, that said electronic structures are more appropriately described from the standpoint of an MO (or Bloch)-type approach, rather than the Heitler-London valence-bond approach. This chapter will start with the many-body Schrodinger equation and the independent-electron (Hartree-Fock) approximation. This is followed with Bloch s theorem for wave functions in a periodic potential and an introduction to reciprocal space. Two general approaches are then described for solving the extended electronic structure problem, the free-electron model and the LCAO method, both of which rely on the independent-electron approximation. Finally, the consequences of the independent-electron approximation are examined. Chapter 5 studies the tight-binding method in detail. Chapter 6 focuses on electron and atomic dynamics (i.e. transport properties), and the metal-nonmetal transition is discussed in Chapter 7. 

The present paper will first review shortly the way of performing Hartree-Fock (HF) calculations for ground state properties of polymers. By use of the Koopmans theorem, the corresponding HF density of states is of direct interest as an interpretative tool of XPS experiments. A practical way of correlating band structure calculations and XPS spectra is thus presented. In the last part, we illustrate the type of mutual enrichment which can be gained from the interplay between theory and experiment for the understanding of valence electronic properties. ... 

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