Site symmetry in crystals

Description:

Site Symmetry in Crystals is the first comprehensive account of the group-theoretical aspects of the site (local) symmetry approach to the study of crystalline solids. The efficiency of this approach, which is based on the concepts of simple induced and band representations of space groups, is demonstrated by considering newly developed applications to electron surface states, point defects, symmetry analysis in lattice dynamics, the theory of second-order phase transitions, and magnetically ordered and non-rigid crystals. Tables of simple induced respresentations are given for the 24 most common space groups, allowing the rapid analysis of electron and phonon states in complex crystals with many atoms in the unit cell.

subjects: Crystallography, Mathematical,  Mathematical Crystallography,  Solid state chemistry,  Solid state physics,  Symmetry (Physics),  Vastestoffysica,  Kristallografie,  Vastestofchemie,  Symmetriegroepen,  Condensed matter physics (liquids & solids),  Crystallography,  Groups & group theory,  Materials science,  Science/Mathematics,  Science,  Nanostructures,  Physics,  Physical and theoretical Chemistry,  Surfaces (Physics),  Physical organic chemistry,  Group theory,  Mathematical physics,  Mathematical Methods in Physics,  Numerical and Computational Physics,  Thin Films Surfaces and Interfaces,  Group Theory and Generalizations