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ID: past-exam-of-the-general-relativity-and-cosmology-and-condensed-matter-physics-paper-of-part-b-of-the-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2011/section-vi/5/unlettered-3/solution
Past exam of the general relativity and cosmology and condensed matter physics paper of Part B of the physics course of the University of Oxford 2011 Section VI 5 Unlettered 3 Solution by
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Use the scattering vector ; reversing its sign conjugates the following amplitudes without changing the intensities. In the kinematic approximation, the atomic scattering factor of atom isAtoms at therefore give the scattering amplitudeHere is the single-electron amplitude; is the unit cell structure factor, and is the geometrical lattice sum. If the crystal has repeats along , the latter factor is a product of geometric series, whose magnitudes containThe sharp constructive peaks occur when every . Thus a permitted reflection has wavevector change equal to a reciprocal lattice vector, with and the additional elastic condition . A finite crystal broadens these peaks; it does not impose an exact delta-function selection on every scattered photon.
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