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In solid state physics one is in the situation that it is possible to write down the Hamiltonian governing the physics of the systems under investigation. The quantum mechanical Schrödinger equation describing the electrons and nuclei that form the solid contains their kinetic energy terms and the Coulomb interactions between the particles. This situation means effectively that one has a ‘theory of everything’ available, describing in principle all material properties below the energy scales of solidification. From a reductionist point of view this is a fait accompli.
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One has to point out though that developments in numerical calculations have made great advances in recent years and are now a useful tool in the understanding of band structures of crystalline materials. Especially the availability of tool sets such as Wien2K [1] and CASTEP [2] make the use of the techniques available to non-experts and become more and more used in the lab environment. However, they are based on certain approximations of the full Hamiltonian and therefore currently unable to treat problems going beyond these approximations.
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Rost, A.W. (2010). Introduction. In: Magnetothermal Properties near Quantum Criticality in the Itinerant Metamagnet Sr3Ru2O7 . Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14524-7_1
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