sixfold rotational symmetry

crystallography

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quasicrystals

  • Figure 1: Hexagonal lattice of atomic sites.
    In quasicrystal: Translational periodicity and symmetry

    …Figure 1 has axes of sixfold rotational symmetry passing through each atomic position. The arrows represent translational symmetries of this crystalline structure. That is, if the entire array of atoms is displaced along one of these arrows, say the one labeled a, all new atomic positions coincide with the locations…

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