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Mirror Symmetry: The Mother of All Crystal Symmetries

Mirror Symmetry: The Mother of All Crystal Symmetries

Hardcover

Series: Springer Solid-State Sciences, Book 200

Physics

ISBN10: 9819983606
ISBN13: 9789819983605
Publisher: Springer
Published: Feb 16 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.91 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

This graduate-level textbook deals with different aspects of plane mirrors and mirror-related symmetries. It provides us with some new ways of understanding symmetries in crystals and the mirror combination schemes. The inclusion of topics such as the Wigner-Seitz unit cell, reciprocal lattice, Brillouin zones, diffraction of crystals, etc., based on the mirror combination scheme, are extremely helpful in understanding many other concepts in crystallography. A mirror is the only fundamental symmetry in crystals, and all other permissible symmetries in crystalline solids can be derived from suitable combinations of mirrors, called derived symmetries. A rudimentary knowledge of symmetry in crystallography is essential to students, researchers, and professionals in many subjects in science and technology: physics, chemistry, mathematics, molecular biology, geology, metallurgy, and particularly materials science and mineralogy.

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