Mind Your k’s and q’s to Simplify Solid‐State Theory
FEB 01, 1969
DOI: 10.1063/1.3035404
Many solid‐state theorists are enthused about a new quantum‐mechanical representation recently developed by Joshua Zak of the Technion, Haifa (while at the Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, MIT). Zak’s “kq representation” can be used to reproduce in an almost trivial way the many earlier and often complicated derivations of electron behavior in a periodic potential.
© 1969. American Institute of Physics
