Application of non-self-adjoint operators for description of electronic excitations in metallic lithium.

Metallic lithium is used to demonstrate the possibilities of applying non-self-adjoint operators for quantitative description of orbital excitations of electrons in crystals. It is shown that, the nonequilibrium distribution function can be calculated when solving the spectral problem; therefore, the kinetic properties of a material can also be described with the unified band theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]