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Condensed Matter Physics, Ch Tight binding, band filling and the three kinds of solid
Problem
A body-centred cubic metal, whose eight nearest neighbours can all be put in step by one k and all out of step by another, so that its bandwidth is 16t, has a measured conduction bandwidth of 5.6eV. Find the hopping integral t.