In fitting electronic band structures of solids by means of scattering phase shifts, the level of the "muffin-tin" potential can be chosen at will relative to the Fermi level. Different choices correspond to distinct ways of expressing the total valence-electron density as a sum of atomic contributions.
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Heine et al. (1971) studied this question.
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