Special features of "sommerfeld"

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KEY EQUIVALENTS

run/stop: spacebar

initialize: i-key

GRAPH

The blue and green curves give the x- and y-components of the average wave vector k of the electrons. The red curve gives, in units of the Fermi energy, the excess of the total electron energy over the initial total energy, divided by the number of electrons. It is a measure of the heating of the electron gas.

SCATTERING

The scattering is a mixture of elastic (governed by tau_e) and inelastic (governed by tau_i) events, and is consistent with the exclusion principle. See Simulations for Solid State Physics for a detailed description of the scattering algorithm.