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A fundamental issue in solid state physics is the structure of the electronic states. Transport, magnetic and optical properties, as well as the very nature (metal, insulator or semiconductor) of the crystal, are indeed controlled by the arrangement of the energy levels.
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Rigamonti, A., Carretta, P. (2007). Electron states in crystals. In: Structure of Matter. UNITEXT(). Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0560-0_12
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