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If particles interact according to isotropic pair potentials that favor multiple length scales, in principle a large variety of different complex structures can be achieved by self-assembly. We present, motivate, and discuss a conjecture…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-11-07 Erdal C. Oğuz , Aleksandar Mijailović , Michael Schmiedeberg

The ground state of a two-dimensional, harmonically confined mesoscopic assembly of up to thirty polar molecules is studied by computer simulations. As the strength of the confining trap is increased, clusters evolve from superfluid, to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-07 Massimo Boninsegni

We present a unified theoretical and computational framework that bridges mathematical quasiperiodicity with classical crystallographic models. Based on a rigorous cut-and-projection construction, the proposed proximal coincidence point set…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-24 Suining Xiong , Wenwen Zou , Pingwen Zhang , Kai Jiang

Quasiperiodic potentials can be used to interpolate between localization and delocalization in one dimension. With the rise of optical platforms engineering dipolar interactions, a key question is the stability of quasicrystalline phases…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-19 Paolo Molignini

One versatile route to the creation of two-dimensional crystal structures on the nanometer to micrometer scale is the self-assembly of colloidal particles at an interface. Here, we explore the crystal phases that can be expected from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-29 Etienne Fayen , Anuradha Jagannathan , Giuseppe Foffi , Frank Smallenburg

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

We report a novel kind of dodecagonal quasicrystal that has so far never been observed, nor theoretically predicted. It is composed of axially stacked hexagonal particle layers, with 12-fold rotational symmetry induced by 30 degrees…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-16 Alfredo Metere , Peter Oleynikov , Mikhail Dzugutov , Sven Lidin

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

Many materials crystallize in structure types that feature a square-net of atoms. While these compounds can exhibit many different properties, some members of this family are topological materials. Within the square-net-based topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-16 Sebastian Klemenz , Shiming Lei , Leslie M. Schoop

Two-dimensional colloidal suspensions subject to laser interference patterns with decagonal symmetry can form an Archimedean-like tiling phase where rows of squares and triangles order aperiodically along one direction [J. Mikhael et al.,…

To understand the formation of the Bergman cluster in the F-type icosahedral quasicrystal, crystallographic relations between the quasicrystal and the intermetallic-compound H and Zn$_{23}$Y$_6$ phases in the Zn-Mg-Y alloy system were…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-16 Kei Nakayama , Masaya Nakagawa , Yasumasa Koyama

Floquet (periodically driven) systems can give rise to unique non-equilibrium phases of matter without equilibrium analogs. The most prominent example is the realization of discrete time crystals. An intriguing question emerges: what other…

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 study, we conduct a comprehensive theoretical analysis of a Fibonacci quasicrystalline stacking of ferromagnetic layers, potentially realizable using van der Waals magnetic materials. We construct a model of this magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-01 Pablo S. Cornaglia , Matias Nuñez , D. J. Garcia

Quasicrystals are characterized by quasi-periodic arrangements of atoms. The description of their mechanics involves deformation and a (so called phason) vector field accounting at macroscopic scale of local phase changes, due to atomic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-23 Luca Bisconti , Paolo Maria Mariano

This paper presents the construction and various properties of substitution tilings related to Stern's diatomic series and based on tiles decorated with elements of $\mathbb{F}_p$ for some odd prime number $p$. These substitution tilings…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Rémy Sigrist

We devise an ideal 3-dimensional octagonal quasicrystal that is based upon the 2-dimensional Ammann-Beenker tiling and that is potentially suitable for realization with patchy particles. Based on an analysis of its local environments we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-01 Akie Kowaguchi , Savan Mehta , Jonathan P. K. Doye , Eva G. Noya

Fractional quantum Hall liquids can accomodate various degrees of spatial ordering. The most likely scenarios are a Hall hexatic, Hall smectic, and Hall crystal, in which respectively orientational, one--dimensional translational, and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Leon Balents

Here, the frequency degree of freedom is introduced into valley photonic crystals with dual band gaps. Based on the high-order plane wave expansion model, we derive an effective Hamiltonian which characterizes dual band gaps. Metallic…

The non-Hermitian extension of quasicrystals (QC) are highly tunable system for exploring novel material phases. While extended-localized phase transitions have been observed in one dimension, quantum phase transition in higher dimensions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Xianqi Tong , Su-Peng Kou