Title Site Symmetry in Crystals : Theory and Applications Author(s) Evarestov, Robert A;Smirnov, Vyacheslav P Publication Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1993. Description XI, 274 p : online resource Abstract Note The history of applications of space group theory to solid state physics goes back more than five decades. The periodicity of the lattice and the definition of a k-space were the corner-stones of this application. Prof. Volker Heine in Vol. 35 of Solid State Physics (1980) noted that, even in perfect crystals, where k-space methods are appropriate, the local properties (such as the charge densi?? ty, bond order, etc.) are defined by the local environment of one atom. Natural?? ly, "k-space methods" are not appropriate for crystals with point defects, sur?? faces and interfaces, or for amorphous materials. In such cases the real-space approach favored by chemists to describe molecules has turned out to be very useful. To span the gulf between the k-space and real space methods it is helpful to recall that atoms in crystalline solids possess a site symmetry defined by the symmetry of the local environment of the atom occupying the site. The site symmetry concept is familiar to crystallographers and commonly used by them in the description of crystalline structures. However, in the application of group theory to solid state physics problems, the site symmetry approach has been used only for the last ten to fifteen years. In our book Methods oj Group Theory in the Quantum Chemistry oj Solids published in Russian in 1987 by Leningrad University Press we gave the first results of this application to the theory of electronic structure of crystals ISBN,Price 9783642974427 Keyword(s) 1. CRYSTALLOGRAPHY 2. Crystallography and Scattering Methods 3. EBOOK 4. EBOOK - SPRINGER 5. GROUP THEORY 6. Group Theory and Generalizations 7. Materials???Surfaces 8. Mathematical Methods in Physics 9. Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation 10. PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 11. PHYSICS 12. Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films 13. THIN FILMS Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I00605     On Shelf