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Determining the Nature of a Material's Band Structure: Metallic or Semi-Metallic?

(Edited after discussion with the asker and seeing the zoomed-in band structures. A commenter suggested adding Addison of hybrid functionals as a correction to the band gap underestimation of [...
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Fermi Energy in Band Structure

In electronic structure calculations of finite systems, there is a well-defined energy scale: 0 is the vacuum energy, and any electron with positive energy is unbound. For materials, the story is ...
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