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Crystals are solid material whose constituents, such as atoms, molecules or ions, are *arranged in a highly ordered microscopic pattern*, a crystal lattice that extends with regularity in all directions. Use for all crystallography and ordered structure topics.

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What are local electrons in a crystal?

I am reading Pekar's "Research in Electron Theory of Crystals" and I came across a passage I find a bit unclear: The theory developed below takes into account the dielectric polarization of a an …
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How to write the Fröhlich Hamiltonian in one dimension?

I am currently working on a (functional) analysis problem refining Pekar's Ansatz (or adiabatic approximation, as it is called in his beautiful 1961 manuscript "Research in Electron Theory of Crystals" …
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Born-Oppenheimer Approximation equivalent to Tensor-product ?

If you have a wave function $\Psi$ of a system consisting of an electron and the vibrational modes of the crystal, THEN we represent the wavefunction $\Psi%$ to be in the Hilbert Space formed by the t …
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