FIZIKA A 9 (2000) 2 , 55-60

ON THE BAND STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS BY NON-LOCAL PSEUDOPOTENTIALS

T. C. PANDYA, P. R. VYAS and V. B. GOHIL

Department of Physics, School of Sciences, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad 380009,
India

Received 15 January 1999; revised manuscript received 11 October 1999
Accepted 4 May 2000

Energy bands of Rb and Cs have been calculated for the first time using average or effective pseudopotentials obtained from non-local ones. It is shown that the results so obtained compare well to those obtained with full non-local calculations.

PACS numbers: 71.25.Cx
UDC 538.915

Keywords: band structure, Rb, Cs, average and effective pseudopotentials

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