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Synthetic spaces allow physicists to bypass constraints imposed by certain physical laws in experiments. Here, we show that a synthetic torus, which consists of a ring trap in the real space and internal states of ultracold atoms cyclically…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-01-03 Yangqian Yan , Shao-Liang Zhang , Sayan Choudhury , Qi Zhou

We study topological states of matter in quasicrystals, which do not rely on crystalline orders. In the absence of a bandstructure description and spin-orbit coupling, we show that a three-dimensional quasicrystal can nevertheless form a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Zhu-Guang Chen , Cunzhong Lou , Kaige Hu , Lih-King Lim

"What is the difference between space and time?" is an ancient question that remains a matter of intense debate. In Newtonian mechanics time is absolute, while in Einstein's theory of relativity time and space combine into Minkowski…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-03 Xiao Dong , QuanSheng Wu , Oleg V. Yazyev , Xin-Ling He , Yongjun Tian , Xiang-Feng Zhou , Hui-Tian Wang

Fractals and quasiperiodic structures share self-similarity as a structural property. Motivated by the link between Fibonacci fractals and quasicrystals which are scaled by the golden mean ratio $\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2}$, we introduce and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-08 Sam Coates

It is known that no length or time measurements are possible in sub-Planckian regions of spacetime. The Volovich hypothesis postulates that the micro-geometry of spacetime may therefore be assumed to be non-archimedean. In this letter, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-20 V. S. Varadarajan , J. Virtanen

We use an extended version of the standard tunneling model to explain the anisotropic sound absorption in decagonal quasicrystals. The glassy properties are determined by an ensemble of two level systems (TLS), arbitrarily oriented. The TLS…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-09 Dragos-Victor Anghel , Dmitry V. Churochkin

Architected materials achieve unique mechanical properties through precisely engineered microstructures that minimize material usage. However, a key challenge of low-density materials is balancing high stiffness with stable deformability up…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-20 Matheus I. N. Rosa , Konstantinos Karapiperis , Kaoutar Radi , Dennis M. Kochmann

One of the most distinguished features of our algebraic geometrical, pencil concept of space-time is the fact that spatial dimensions and time stand, as far as their intrinsic structure is concerned, on completely different footings: the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Metod Saniga

The discovery of quasicrystals has changed our view of some of the most basic notions related to the condensed state of matter. Before the age of quasicrystals, it was believed that crystals break the continuous translation and rotation…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-02 Ron Lifshitz

Finsler geometry serves as a fundamental and natural extension of Riemannian geometry, providing a valuable framework for investigating Lorentz violation in spacetime. Previous studies have treated the Finsler structures associated with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-07 Jie Zhu , Hao Li , Bo-Qiang Ma

The hexagonal ZrNiAl-type (space group: P-62m) and the tetragonal Mo2FeB2-type (space group: P4/mbm) structures, which are frequently formed in the same Yb-based alloys and exhibit physical properties related to valence-fluctuation, can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-01 Tsutomu Ishimasa , Marek Mihalkovič , Kazuhiko Deguchi , Noriaki K. Sato , Marc de Boissieu

We propose a unified framework for dealing with matching rules of quasiperiodic patterns, relevant for both tiling models and real world quasicrystals. The approach is intended for extraction and validation of a minimal set of matching…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-07 Pavel Kalugin , André Katz

Quasi-polar spaces are sets of points having the same intersection numbers with respect to hyperplanes as classical polar spaces. Non-classical examples of quasi-quadrics have been constructed using a technique called pivoting [5]. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Jeroen Schillewaert , Geertrui Van de Voorde

Electronic and topological properties of materials are derived from the interplay between crystalline symmetry and dimensionality. Simultaneously introducing 'forbidden' symmetries via quasiperiodic ordering with low-dimensionality into a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-01 Jeffrey D. Cain , Amin Azizi , Matthias Conrad , Sinéad M. Griffin , Alex Zettl

Classical macroscopic space-time is pictured in terms of Rydberg states of an underlying discritzed `atomic' quantum geometry at Planck scales. While quantum geometry on such scales involves several very short lived transitions changing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-28 C. Sivaram

The groups of (linear) similarity and coincidence isometries of certain modules in d-dimensional Euclidean space, which naturally occur in quasicrystallography, are considered. It is shown that the structure of the factor group of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Svenja Glied

We present exact solutions for some eigenstates of hopping models on one and two dimensional quasiperiodic tilings and show that they are "critical" states, by explicitly computing their multifractal spectra. These eigenstates are shown to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-02 Nicolas Macé , Anuradha Jagannathan , Pavel Kalugin , Rémy Mosseri , Frédéric Piéchon

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 a recent Letter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 185304 (2013)], we proposed a scheme for realizing quantum quasicrystals using spin-orbit coupled dipolar bosons. We remarked that these quantum quasicrystals have additional ``phason''-like modes…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-12-24 Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Ivar Martin , Eugene A. Demler

Due to the growing interest in embeddings of space-time in higher-dimensional spaces we consider a specific type of embedding. After proving an inequality between intrinsically defined curvature invariants and the squared mean curvature, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Stefan Haesen , Leopold Verstraelen