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The discovery of quasicrystals with crystallographically forbidden rotational symmetries has changed the notion of the ordering in materials, yet little is known about the dynamical emergence of such exotic forms of order. Here we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-11-27 Farokh Mivehvar , Helmut Ritsch , Francesco Piazza

We develop a general framework to study hyperuniformity of various mathematical models of quasicrystals. Using this framework we provide examples of non-hyperuniform quasicrystals which unlike previous examples are not limit-quasiperiodic.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-10-06 Michael Björklund , Tobias Hartnick

We experimentally investigate the nature of 2D phase transitions in a quasi-2D granular fluid. Using a surface decorated with periodically spaced dimples we observe interfacial tension between coexisting liquid and crystal phases.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 J. G. Downs , N. D. Smith , K. K. Mandadapu , J. P. Garrahan , M. I. Smith

We discuss recent advances in the study of topological insulators protected by spatial symmetries by reviewing three representative, theoretical examples. In three dimensions, these states of matter are generally characterized by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Alexander Lau , Carmine Ortix

We argue that 2D dodecagonal spherical quasicrystalls (QCs) will be discovered in the nearest future and investigate how the planar QC order becomes compatible with the spherical geometry. We show that the appearance of curvature-induced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-08 I. A. Shevchenko , O. V. Konevtsova , S. B. Rochal

Rich topological phenomena, edge states and two types of corner states, are unveiled in a two-dimensional square-lattice dielectric photonic crystal without both $C_4$ and $M_{x(y)}$ symmetries. Specifically, non-trivial type-I corner…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-28 Langlang Xiong , Yufu Liu , Yu Zhang , Yaoxian Zheng , Xunya Jiang

Crystalline topological phases have recently attracted a lot of experimental and theoretical attention. Key advances include the complete elementary band representation analyses of crystalline matter by symmetry indicators and the discovery…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Eyal Cornfeld , Adam Chapman

Motivated by recent experimental findings, we investigate the possible occurrence and characteristics of quasicrystalline order in two-dimensional mixtures of point dipoles with two sorts of dipole moments. Despite the fact that the dipolar…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Falk Scheffler , Philipp Maass , Johannes Roth , Holger Stark

The study of topologically ordered states have given rise to a growing interest in symmetry protected states in quantum matter. Recently, this theory has been extended to quantum many body systems which demonstrate ordered states at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Christopher Sims

Electronic nematic order has been reported in a rich landscape of materials, encompassing not only a range of intertwined correlated and topological phenomena, but also different underlying lattice symmetries. Motivated by these findings,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-15 Matthias Hecker , Anant Rastogi , Daniel F. Agterberg , Rafael M. Fernandes

We study topological systems with both a chiral and a spatial symmetry which result in an additional spatial chiral symmetry. We distinguish the topologically nontrivial states according to the chiral symmetries protecting them and study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Jinpeng Xiao , Jin An

The field of two-dimensional topological semimetals, which emerged at the intersection of two-dimensional materials and topological materials, have been rapidly developing in recent years. In this article, we briefly review the progress in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-17 Xiaolong Feng , Jiaojiao Zhu , Weikang Wu , Shengyuan A. Yang

The interplay of topology and symmetry in a material's band structure may result in various patterns of topological states of different dimensionality on the boundary of a crystal. The protection of these "higher-order" boundary states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-20 Luka Trifunovic , Piet W. Brouwer

For many years, quasicrystals were observed only as solid-state metallic alloys, yet current research is now actively exploring their formation in a variety of soft materials, including systems of macromolecules, nanoparticles and colloids.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-02 Samuel Savitz , Mehrtash Babadi , Ron Lifshitz

This letter reports theory of elasticity and hydrodynamics of quasicrystals with 7-, 14-, 9- and 18-fold symmetries in solid phase, in which the 6-dimensional embedding space concept is used. Based on the concept and the Landau-Anderson…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-02 Tian You Fan

Quasicrystals are fascinating structures, characterized by strong positional order but lacking the periodicity of a crystal. In colloidal systems, quasicrystals are typically predicted for particles with complex or highly specific…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-28 Etienne Fayen , Marianne Impéror-Clerc , Laura Filion , Giuseppe Foffi , Frank Smallenburg

Topological invariants govern many important physical properties in condensed matter systems. In this work, we obtain the complete set of topological invariants for a family of one-dimensional quasicrystals. The first and best-studied…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-11 Anuradha Jagannathan

A two-dimensional system of soft particles interacting via a two-length-scale potential is studied. Density functional theory and Brownian dynamics simulations reveal a fluid phase and two crystalline phases with different lattice spacing.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-30 A. J. Archer , A. M. Rucklidge , E. Knobloch

The article is devoted to a structure of topological spaces related with topological quasigroups. Regular and complete spaces over topological quasigroups are studied. Separations and embeddings are also investigated for them. Their…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-29 S. V. Ludkowski

Recent years saw the complete classification of topological band structures, revealing an abundance of topological crystalline insulators. Here we theoretically demonstrate the existence of topological materials beyond this framework,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Daniel Varjas , Alexander Lau , Kim Pöyhönen , Anton R. Akhmerov , Dmitry I. Pikulin , Ion Cosma Fulga