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Quasicrystals -- The impact of N.G. de Bruijn

Mathematical Physics 2014-08-06 v3 Statistical Mechanics History and Overview math.MP History and Philosophy of Physics

Abstract

In this paper we put the work of Professor N.G. de Bruijn on quasicrystals in historical context. After briefly discussing what went before, we shall review de Bruijn's work together with recent related theoretical and experimental developments. We conclude with a discussion of Yang-Baxter integrable models on Penrose tilings, for which essential use of de Bruijn's work has been made.

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@article{arxiv.1306.6698,
  title  = {Quasicrystals -- The impact of N.G. de Bruijn},
  author = {Helen Au-Yang and Jacques H. H. Perk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.6698},
  year   = {2014}
}

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pdfLaTeX, 33 pages, 15 figures, submitted to Indagationes Mathematicae. Version 2: Two minor misprints corrected and duplicate reference deleted. Version 3: Reference added