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Past exam of the condensed matter physics course of the University of Oxford 2022 1 c ii Solution by
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Replace every coloured site in the drawing by an identical site carrying . The face-centering lattice translations now preserve the average crystal structure, whose Bravais lattice is a face-centered cubic lattice. One choice of primitive lattice translation vectors isA coherent Bragg diffraction peak requires for all three primitive lattice translation vectors. Thus , , and must all be even, equivalent to all three Miller indices having the same integer parity. This is the face-centred cubic selection rule: is forbidden and is allowed. The restoration of these lattice translations explains the disappearance of the ordered superlattice reflections.
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