513.001 Molecular and Solid State Physics

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Wigner-Seitz Cell

A Wigner-Seitz cell is a unit cell of a crystal. It is a geometric shape consisting of faces, edges, and corners. For instance the Wigner-Seitz cell for a Cubic P lattice is a cube with six faces, 12 edges and 8 corners. How many corners does the Wigner-Seitz cell of a Triclinic lattice have?