It is shown that in the absence of core repulsion and intervalley kinetic energy, the intervalley coulomb scattering leads to instability of the effective-mass donor state in silicon. In this material, overlap of Bloch functions from different valleys is essential to reduce the intervalley scattering below a threshold for instability.
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Herbert et al. (1977) studied this question.
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