The free electron method uses the Bloch-Floquet theorem which says that the solutions of the wave equation in a periodic potential must be of the form

• The free electron method uses the Bloch-Floquet theorem which says that the solutions of the wave equation in a periodic potential must be of the form

• the u(x) must satisfy a boundary condition, we usually bend the crystal in a circle of N periods and demand that

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