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Problem 53P
Metallic lithium has a bcc crystal structure. Each unit cell is a cube of side length a = 0.35 nm. (a) For a bcc lattice, what is the number of atoms per unit volume? Give your answer in terms of a. (Hint: How many atoms are there per unit cell?) (b) Use the result of part (a) to calculate the zero-temperature Fermi energy EF0 for metallic lithium. Assume there is one free electron per atom.
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QUESTION:
Problem 53P
Metallic lithium has a bcc crystal structure. Each unit cell is a cube of side length a = 0.35 nm. (a) For a bcc lattice, what is the number of atoms per unit volume? Give your answer in terms of a. (Hint: How many atoms are there per unit cell?) (b) Use the result of part (a) to calculate the zero-temperature Fermi energy EF0 for metallic lithium. Assume there is one free electron per atom.
ANSWER:
Introduction
First we have to calculate the number of electrons per unit volume for the metallic lithium and then we have to calculate the zero temperature fermi energy.
Step 1
(a) The number of atoms in a BCC crystal is per unit cells.
The volume of one unit cell is given
Hence the number of atoms per unit cell is given by
Now we have
,
Hence