Solution

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At each wavevector the orbital-basis Hamiltonian is
A phase choice makes the momentum-independent mixing real and nonnegative. The characteristic equation is
so
For , an eigenvector obeys . At the bare crossing, the normalized states are with energies . The lower state's parabolic-orbital weight is
which tends to one below the crossing and zero above it. This makes the exchange of band character in the sketches explicit.

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