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First-order perturbation theory (Fermi’s Golden Rule or the Born approximation) is used to discuss how to calculate the rate at which electrons in a crystal scatter with space- and/or time-dependent perturbations.The case of electrons in three, two, and one dimension(s) is considered in the general case in which the band structure is known from numerical calculations.
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Fischetti, M.V., Vandenberghe, W.G. (2016). Generalities About Scattering in Semiconductors. In: Advanced Physics of Electron Transport in Semiconductors and Nanostructures. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01101-1_12
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