The alternate molecular orbital ground state for the cubic electron gas (three-dimensional analogue of the two-plane-wave model) has an insulator-metal transition at rₛ{}100. In contrast, the eigenvalues of the exact Kohn-Sham potential are metallic at all rₛ.
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Jones et al. (1987) studied this question.
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