Is there any difference between charge-transfer insulator and conventional (band) insulator?

Question

Like conventional (band) insulators, is conductivity in the charge-transfer insulator blocked by the Pauli exclusion principle?

Answer 1

There is definitely a difference. A band insulator can be understood simply as a result of filling the allowed states in the nearly free electron picture. To understand a charge-transfer insulator you must take into account the Coulomb interaction.

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