Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2005-11-25
Theor. Chem. Acc. 116, 398 (2006)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
RevTeX, 7 pages, 1 table, submitted to Theor. Chem. Acc
Scientific paper
10.1007/s00214-006-0091-7
We present a simplified computational scheme in order to calculate the effects of electron correlations on the energy bands of diamond and silicon. By adopting a quasiparticle picture we compute first the relaxation and polarization effects around an electron set into a conduction band Wannier orbital. This is done by allowing the valence orbitals to relax within a self-consistent field (SCF) calculation. The diagonal matrix element of the Hamiltonian leads to a shift of the center of gravity of the conduction band while the off-diagonal matrix elements result in a small reduction of the conduction-electron band width. This calculation is supplemented by the computation of the loss of ground state correlations due to the blocked Wannier orbital into which the added electron has been placed. The same procedure applies to the removal of an electron, i.e., to the valence bands. But the latter have been calculated previously in some detail and previous results are used in order to estimate the energy gap in the two materials. The numerical data reported here shows that the methods works, in principle, but that also some extension of the scheme is necessary to obtain fully satisfactory results.
Birkenheuer Uwe
Fulde Peter
Stoll Hermann
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