EurekAlert  January 7, 2021 The electronic density of states (DOS) quantifies the distribution of the energy levels that can be occupied by electrons in a quasiparticle picture and is central to modern electronic structure theory and underpins the computation and interpretation of experimentally observable material properties such as optical absorption and electrical conductivity. An international team of researchers (Switzerland, UK) studied the configurations of silicon spanning a broad set of thermodynamic conditions, ranging from bulk structures to clusters and from semiconducting to metallic behavior and compared different approaches to represent the DOS, and the accuracy of predicting quantities such as […]