For a free circle of radius and square reciprocal period with , the circle cuts the faces but not the corners of the first zone. Weak Bragg gaps reconnect the folded branches into two inequivalent edge-centred electron pockets and one corner-centred hole pocket. The zero-potential limit retains band crossings instead of avoided crossings.
For , each face cap has area . The total second-band electron area is ; the first-band hole area is . Multiplying either area by the spin degeneracy two and dividing by gives the carrier densities. This is an infinitesimal-potential count, not an exact finite-gap formula.
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