Electronic excitation energies in crystals of PETN, RDX and HMX

The key role in the model of detonation based on metallization of an explosive plays a fundamental band gap of a molecular crystal. For determining it in a shocked crystal prerequisite calculation for perfect PETN, RDX, and HMX is performed at 0K. Densities of states for these explosives are obtained and fundamental gaps are determined. Calculations are done within the framework of the Density Functional Theory and its planewave and pseudopotential implementation in the ABINIT package.