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  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Materials Science
  • Computational Chemistry

Background:

  • Extracting electronic band structures from finite-cluster calculations presents challenges.
  • Existing methods struggle with issues like band crossings, doublings, and holes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To improve a recently proposed approach for band structure extraction from finite-cluster calculations.
  • To address limitations such as avoided band crossings, doublings, and holes.
  • To apply the enhanced method to polymer band structure calculations using oligomers.

Main Methods:

  • The study refines an existing finite-cluster calculation approach.
  • It integrates the elongation method for finite-system calculations.
  • The enhanced method is applied to model systems like water chains, polyacetylene, polyethylene, and BN nanotubes.

Main Results:

  • The improved method successfully handles avoided band crossings.
  • It reduces problems associated with doublings and holes in band structures.
  • Accurate band structures for polymers were extracted from oligomer calculations.

Conclusions:

  • The enhanced finite-cluster approach provides a robust method for polymer band structure determination.
  • This technique offers a more reliable way to study electronic properties of extended systems.
  • The method's applicability is demonstrated across diverse material examples.