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Past exam of the chemistry A course of the University of Cambridge 2025 Paper 2 A9 c Solution by
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The Fermi sphere volume in reciprocal space isThe primitive real-space cell has volume , so the first Brillouin zone has volumeEach band accommodates two electrons per primitive cell when spin is counted. Six electrons therefore require three such zone-volumes of occupied reciprocal-space states in the free-electron counting picture. The extended-zone sphere is not confined to the first zone; folding it produces multiple bands. It does not imply that the actual tungsten Fermi surface is spherical.
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