KKR Analysis of the Anderson-McMillan Theory of Electronic Structure of Liquid Metals.

Abstract

The method of Anderson and McMillan (AM) has recently been demonstrated to fail for resonant scatterers while nevertheless providing a useful bandstructure approximation for non-resonant scatterers. The authors explain this behavior by using the formalism of Korringa, Kohn, and Rostoker (KKR) to relate the AM method to well known approximations in the band theory of crystalline solids. In particular the authors show that the AM method for the dispersion relation of a liquid metal is essentially an optimized single-orthogonalized-plane-wave approximation to the bandstructure of a crystal at the same density.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA024386

Entities

People

  • J. J. Olson

Organizations

  • University of California, San Diego

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Band Structures
  • Band Theory Of Solids
  • Dispersion Relations
  • Dispersions
  • Energy Bands
  • Liquid Metals
  • Liquids
  • Physical Properties
  • Plane Waves
  • Solid State Properties
  • Waves

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene