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Electron correlations are very important in the study of semiconductors and insulators. This statement is not in contradiction with the observation that most experiments in semiconductor physics can be described within a one-particle picture. It merely shows that the quasiparticle concept works very well in these systems. A noticeable exception is the fractional quantum Hall effect, which is based exclusively on correlations and in which the quasiparticles obey fractional instead of Fermi statistics [9.1]. Even for a system like silicon, ab initio calculations show that electronic correlations contribute roughly one-third of the binding energy.
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Fulde, P. (1993). Semiconductors and Insulators. In: Electron Correlations in Molecules and Solids. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 100. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97477-9_9
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