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Kirigami, the art of introducing cuts in thin sheets to enable articulation and deployment, has become an inspiration for a novel class of mechanical metamaterials with unusual properties. Here we complement the use of periodic tiling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-12 Lucy Liu , Gary P. T. Choi , L. Mahadevan

Using a strategy that may be applied in theory or in experiments, we identify the regime in which a model binary soft matter mixture forms quasicrystals. The system is described using classical density functional theory combined with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-22 A. Scacchi , W. R. C. Somerville , D. M. A. Buzza , A. J. Archer

In this paper the problem of the theory of a quasicrystal structures - the determination of coordinates of each atom of quasicrystal in analytical form - is solved. Within the framework of the proposed model a periodic crystal can be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 Vadim Gouliaev

Aperiodic crystals constitute a fascinating class of materials that includes incommensurate (IC) modulated structures and quasicrystals (QCs). Although these two categories share a common foundation in the concept of superspace, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-15 Toranosuke Matsubara , Akihisa Koga , Atsushi Takano , Yushu Matsushita , Tomonari Dotera

The fairly recent discovery of "quasicrystals", whose X-ray diffraction patterns reveal certain peculiar features which do not conform with spatial periodicity, has motivated studies of the wave-dynamical implications of "aperiodic order".…

This paper reports formation enthalpies of phases in the Al-Mn-Pd ternary alloy system as calculated from first principles using electronic density functional theory. We consider all crystal structures as reported in the assessed phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-27 Marek Mihalkovic , Michael Widom

It is argued that the definition of quasicrystals should not include the requirement that they possess an axis of symmetry that is forbidden in periodic crystals. The term "quasicrystal" should simply be regarded as an abbreviation for…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Ron Lifshitz

Although the effects of interactions in solid state systems still remains a widely open subject, some limiting cases such as the three dimensional Fermi liquid or the one-dimensional Luttinger liquid are by now well understood when one is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Julien Vidal , Dominique Mouhanna , Thierry Giamarchi

The unrelated discoveries of quasicrystals and topological insulators have in turn challenged prevailing paradigms in condensed-matter physics. We find a surprising connection between quasicrystals and topological phases of matter: (i)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-18 Yaacov E. Kraus , Yoav Lahini , Zohar Ringel , Mor Verbin , Oded Zilberberg

In this paper, we propose a general mechanism for the existence of quasicrystals in spatially extended systems (partial differential equations with Euclidean symmetry). We argue that the existence of quasicrystals with higher order…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-02-04 Ian Melbourne , Jens Rademacher , Bob Rink , Sergey Zelik

Quasicrystals and their periodic approximants are complex phases, which have by now been observed in many metallic alloys, soft matter systems, and particle simulations. In recent experiments of thin-film perovskites on solid substrates,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-07 Nydia Roxana Varela-Rosales , Michael Engel

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

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

Using electron diffraction, we show that free electron metals such as sodium and potassium form a highly regular quasiperiodic monolayer on the fivefold surface of icosahedral Al-Pd-Mn and that the quasiperiodicity propagates up to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-30 A. K. Shukla , R. S. Dhaka , S. W. Dsouza , Sanjay Singh , D. Wu , T. A. Lograsso , M. Krajci , J. Hafner , K. Horn , S. R. Barman

The theory of magnetic symmetry in quasicrystals is used to characterize the nature of magnetic peaks, expected in elastic neutron diffraction experiments. It is established that there is no symmetry-based argument which forbids the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-10 Ron Lifshitz

Quasicrystals are nonperiodic structures having no translational symmetry but nonetheless possessing long-range order. The material properties of quasicrystals, particularly their low-temperature behavior, defy easy description. We present…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-18 Theodore A. Corcovilos , Jahnavee Mittal

This is a survey article dedicated to the study of topological quantities in theory of normal metals discovered in the works of the authors during the last years. Our results are based on the theory of dynamical systems on Fermi surfaces.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ya. Maltsev , S. P. Novikov

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

Commensurability is of paramount importance in numerous strongly interacting electronic systems. In the Fractional Quantum Hall effect, a rich cascade of increasingly narrow plateaux appear at larger denominator filling fractions. Rich…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-20 Eran Sagi , Zohar Nussinov

The observation recently of 12-fold quasicrystals in polymers, nanoparticle mixture and 12-fold and 18-fold quasicrystals in colloidal solutions are important events for the study of quasicrystals. To describe the mechanical behaviour we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-10-08 Tian You Fan