Abstract
The origin of cohesion in copper is discussed on the basis of calculations performed in a simplified nearly-free ( s) electron-tight binding ( d) electron model. While the atomic radius dependence of the s-electron energy is obtained similar to earlier ab initio results, the d-electron contribution to the total energy is found not to be the traditional monotonic repulsion, but slightly attractive in the neighbourhood of the observed lattice spacing.
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