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Quasicrystals are aperiodically ordered solids that exhibit long-range order without translational periodicity, bridging the gap between crystalline and amorphous materials. Due to their lack of translational periodicity, information on…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-10 Tano Kim Kender , Marco Corrias , Cesare Franchini

A group-theoretical approach to the construction of quasiperiodic tilings of a Euclidean plane, possessing five-fold symmetry, is applied. Of the infinitely many of variants of quasiperiodic partitions of the plane, possessing the dihedral…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Alexander S. Prokhoda

A new class of self-similar ordered structures with non-crystallographic point symmetries is presented. Each of these structures, named superquasicrystals, is given as a section of a higher-dimensional "crystal" with recursive superlattice…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Komajiro Niizeki , Nobuhisa Fujita

Symmetry sharing facilitates coherent interfaces which can transition from periodic to aperiodic structures. Motivated by the design and construction of such systems, we present hexagonal aperiodic tilings with a single edge-length which…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-22 Sam Coates

In a recent Letter we proposed a means to realize a quasicrystal with eight-fold symmetry by trapping particles in an optical potential created by four lasers. The quasicrystals obtained in this way, which are closely related to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-05 Anuradha Jagannathan , Michel Duneau

Quasicrystals have intrigued and stimulated research in a large number of disciplines. Mathematicians, physicists, chemists, metallurgists and materials scientists have found in them a fertile ground for new insights and discoveries. In the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-06-24 Anuradha Jagannathan

We apply a framework for the description of random tilings without height representation, which was proposed recently, to the special case of quasicrystalline random tilings. Several important examples are discussed, thereby demonstrating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-28 Christoph Richard

A plethora of unconventional localization phenomena and fractal features of linear spectrum observed in quasiperiodic structures have been accompanied by a long-standing quest for the geometrical elements and structures that permit tilings…

The strict geometric rules that define aperiodic tilings lead to the unique spectral and transport properties of quasicrystals, but also limit our ability to design them. In this Letter, we explore a novel example of a continuously tunable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Hector Roche Carrasco , Justin Schirmann , Aurelien Mordret , Adolfo G. Grushin

Introducing an axis of reflectional symmetry in a quasicrystal leads to the creation of localised edge modes that can be used to build waveguides. We develop theory that characterises reflection-induced localised modes in materials that are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-01 Bryn Davies , Richard V Craster

Aperiodic tiling --- a form of complex global geometric structure arising through locally checkable, constant-time matching rules --- has long been closely tied to a wide range of physical, information-theoretic, and foundational…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Chaim Goodman-Strauss

Atomic-resolution electron microscope images show that a quasicrystal is a quasiperiodic packing of clusters. The outer atomic shells of multi-shell clusters occuring in quasicrystals are highly symmetric and rather robust, but some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nicolae Cotfas

Altermagnetism, a novel magnetic phase characterized by symmetry-protected, momentum-dependent spin splitting and collinear compensated magnetic moments, has thus far been explored primarily in periodic crystals. In this Letter, we extend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Yiming Li , Mingxiang Pan , Jun Leng , Yuxiao Chen , Huaqing Huang

Inspired by the modelization of 2D materials systems, we characterize arrangements of identical nonflat squares in 3D. We prove that the fine geometry of such arrangements is completely characterized in terms of patterns of mutual…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 Manuel Friedrich , Manuel Seitz , Ulisse Stefanelli

We present a method for generating hexagonal aperiodic tilings that are topologically equivalent to the triangular and dice lattices. This approach incorporates aperiodic sequences into the spacing between three sets of grids for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-12 Toranosuke Matsubara , Akihisa Koga , Tomonari Dotera

We present a construction of a family of non-periodic tilings using elementary tools such as modular arithmetic and vector geometry. These tilings exhibit a distinct type of structural regularity, which we term modulo-staggered rotational…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Miki Imura

We present a systematic method of constructing limit-quasiperiodic structures with non-crystallographic point symmetries. Such structures are different aperiodic ordered structures from quasicrystals, and we call them "superquasicrystals".…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Komajiro Niizeki , Nobuhisa Fujita

Predicting quasicrystal structures is a multifaceted problem that can involve predicting a previously unknown phase, predicting the structure of an experimentally observed phase, or predicting the thermodynamic stability of a given…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-21 Michael Widom , Marek Mihalkovic

Aperiodic point sets (or tilings) which can be obtained by the method of cut and projection from higher dimensional periodic sets play an important role for the description of quasicrystals. Their topological invariants can be computed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan Forrest , John Hunton , Johannes Kellendonk

Some of the most remarkable tilings and discrete quasiperiodic sets used in quasicrystal physics can be obtained by using strip projection method in a superspace of dimension four, five or six, and the projection of a unit hypercube as a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nicolae Cotfas