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Is there an intuitive explanation as to why silicon has an indirect gap? I have heard that this can explained using pseudopotentials.

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There is no intuitive explanation of experimental facts like this one. Actually, this is hard to get even from first-principle calculations. – Misha Apr 24 at 12:05

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