5. Approximate treatment of electrons in a periodic potential: effects of a weak potential (7,12 Nov. 2025)
Section outline
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Brillouin zones. Folding of Fermi spheres in case of "empty" lattice model: Example for a square lattice with different numbers of valence electrons per cell
Effects of a weak perturbing potential (nearly free electrons): non degenerate case; degenerate case (two-levels system) (A&M, ch. 9)