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The growth of quasicrystals, i.e., aperiodic structures with long-range order, seeded from the melt is investigated using a dynamical phase field crystal model. Depending on the thermodynamic conditions, two different growth modes are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-07-31 C. V. Achim , M. Schmiedeberg , H. Löwen

This paper continues our study of quasicrystals initiated in Part I. We propose a general mechanism for constructing quasicrystals, existing globally in time, in spatially-extended systems (partial differential equations with Euclidean…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Ian Melbourne , Jens Rademacher , Bob Rink , Sergey Zelik

Between space crystals and amorphous materials there exists a third class of aperiodic structures which lack translational symmetry but reveal long-range order. They are dubbed quasi-crystals and their formation, similarly as the formation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-06-19 Krzysztof Giergiel , Arkadiusz Kuroś , Krzysztof Sacha

While a generic open quantum system decays to its steady state, continuous time crystals (CTCs) develop spontaneous oscillation and never converge to a stationary state. Just as crystals develop correlations in space, CTCs do so in time.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Parvinder Solanki , Fabrizio Minganti

We study the mechanics and statistical physics of dislocations interacting on cylinders, motivated by the elongation of rod-shaped bacterial cell walls and cylindrical assemblies of colloidal particles subject to external stresses. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-15 Ariel Amir , Jayson Paulose , David R. Nelson

Model sets play a fundamental role in structure analysis of quasicrystals. The diffraction diagram of a quasicrystal admits as symmetry group a finite group G, and there is a G-cluster C (union of orbits of G) such that the quasicrystal can…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicolae Cotfas

Recent discovery of the superconducting ground state in Quasicrystals (QCs) has opened up an exciting new avenue for superconductivity based on QCs. However, theoretical studies to date have largely focused on a limited subset of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-22 Sougata Biswas , Debika Debnath , Paramita Dutta

Periodic configurations have dominated the design of phononic and elastic-acoustic metamaterial structures for the past decades. Unlike periodic crystals, quasicrystals lack translational symmetry but are unrestricted in rotational…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Danilo Beli , Matheus I. N. Rosa , Carlos De Marqui , Massimo Ruzzene

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

Dislocation-interface interactions dictate the mechanical properties of polycrystalline materials through dislocation absorption, emission and reflection and interface sliding. We derive a mesoscale interface boundary condition to describe…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-19 Jinxin Yu , Alfonso H. W. Ngan , David J. Srolovitz , Jian Han

We study the emergence of quasicrystal configurations produced purely by quantum fluctuations in the ground-state phase diagram of interacting bosonic systems. By using a variational mean-field approach, we determine the relevant features…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-02-25 A. Mendoza-Coto , R. Turcati , V. Zampronio , R. Díaz-Méndez , T. Macrì , F. Cinti

Quasicrystals whose building blocks are of mesoscopic rather than atomic scale have recently been discovered in several soft-matter systems. Contrary to metallurgic quasicrystals whose source of stability remains a question of great debate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-17 Kobi Barkan , Haim Diamant , Ron Lifshitz

We analyze transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images of self-assembled quasicrystals, composed of binary systems of nanoparticles. We use an automated procedure that identifies the positions of dislocations and determines their…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-16 Liron Korkidi , Kobi Barkan , Ron Lifshitz

We investigate the emergence of time quasicrystals (TQCs) in the open Dicke model, subjected to a quasi-periodic Fibonacci drive. TQCs are characterized by a robust sub-harmonic quasi-periodic response that is qualitatively distinct from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Sk Anisur , Sayan Choudhury

This paper develops a geometrical model of dislocations and disclinations in single crystals at the mesoscopic scale. In the continuation of previous work the distribution theory is used to represent concentrated effects in the defect lines…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Nicolas Van Goethem , Francois Dupret

From butterfly wings to remnants of nuclear detonation, aperiodic order repeatedly emerges in nature, often exhibiting reduced sensitivity to boundaries and symmetry constraints. Inspired by this principle, a paradigm shift is introduced in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Kawen Li , Hangjin Cho , Richard Norte , Dongil Shin

Quasicrystals are unique materials characterized by long-range order without periodicity. They are observed in systems such as metallic alloys, soft matter, and particle simulations. Unlike periodic crystals, which are invariant under…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Nydia Roxana Varela-Rosales , Michael Engel

Quasicrystals remain among the most intriguing materials in physics and chemistry. Their structure results in many unusual properties including anomalously low friction as well as poor electrical and thermal conductivity but it also…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-05-01 Guido Pupillo , Primoz Ziherl , Fabio Cinti

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

In this paper, the second part of a survey of the geometric properties of defects in quasicrystals studied from the Volterra viewpoint (see ref. [1]), we show that: 1$- $ a {\sf disvection line} L$_{||} \subset \mathrm E_{||}$ of Burgers…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-27 Maurice Kleman