This Letter analyzes the electron states associated with the silicon vacancy and proposes a distortion model for the surrounding atoms that is derived from self-consistent calculations for single-particle states and from model calculations of elastic restoring forces. The predicted level structure is such that V⁺ is, contrary to currently accepted ideas, a metastable state which decays either to V⁰ or to V⁺⁺, depending on the Fermi energy.
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