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The electronic structure and optical properties of magnesium oxide (MgO) are investigated at the structural phase transition pressure using the plane‐wave pseudo‐potential density functional method within the generalized gradient approximation (GGA). Good agreement between the calculated lattice parameters and experimental results is obtained, and a direct energy gap of 3.72 eV is estimated in the...