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Past exam of the quantum condensed matter course of the University of Cambridge 2022 Section B 5 e Solution by
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At each wavevector the orbital-basis Hamiltonian isA phase choice makes the momentum-independent mixing real and nonnegative. The characteristic equation issoFor , an eigenvector obeys . At the bare crossing, the normalized states are with energies . The lower state's parabolic-orbital weight iswhich 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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