513.001 Molecular and Solid State Physics

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Gold forms an fcc crystal.

(a) What does the first Brillouin zone look like?

(b) Draw (approximately) the phonon dispersion relation for gold.

(c) Explain what the empty lattice approximation is and use it to draw approximately the electronic dispersion relation.