Shallow-donor wave functions and donor-pair exchange in silicon: Ab initio theory and floating-phase Heitler-London approach

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Koiller, Belita ^a   Capaz, R B ^a   Hu, Xuedong ^b   Das Sarma, S ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON; OSCILLATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM THEORY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 19744381465     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.115207     Document Type: Article

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