513.001 Molecular and Solid State Physics

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Equivalent planes

A crystal has a set of equivalent planes <100>. Write down one of the symmetry elements of the point group for this crystal. The symmetry element is a 3×3 matrix. What consequences does this symmetry have for quantities like the conductivity or the electric susceptibility?