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The theory of the structure and stability of stoichiometric intermetallic compounds is an extremely wide field. A large amount of crystallographic data have been accumulated [8.1–3], but their explanation in terms of the electron theory has hardly been tackled as yet. The complexity of most of the relevant crystal structures renders band structure calculations quite difficult and the strong chemical bonding effects make a perturbation approach based on simple local model potentials virtually impossible.
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Hafner, J. (1987). Intermetallic Compounds. In: From Hamiltonians to Phase Diagrams. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 70. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83058-7_8
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