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A many variable $q$-calculus is introduced using the formalism of braided covector algebras. Its properties when certain of its deformation parameters are roots of unity are discussed in detail, and related to fractional supersymmetry. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 R. S. Dunne

We investigate quasicrystal-forming soft matter using a two-scale phase field crystal model. At state points near thermodynamic coexistence between bulk quasicrystals and the liquid phase, we find multiple metastable spatially localized…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-04-19 P. Subramanian , A. J. Archer , E. Knobloch , A. M. Rucklidge

After providing a concise overview on quasicrystals and their discovery more than a quarter of a century ago, I consider the unexpected interplay between nanotechnology and quasiperiodic crystals. Of particular relevance are efforts to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Ron Lifshitz

The three-dimensional generalized dynamics of soft-matter quasicrystals was investigated, in which the governing equations of the dynamics are derived for observed 12-fold symmetry quasicrystals and possible observed 8- and 10-symmetry ones…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-17 Tian-You Fan , Zhi-Yi Tang

The distinctive electronic properties of quasicrystals stem from their long range structural order, with invariance under rotations and under discrete scale change, but without translational invariance. d-dimensional quasicrystals can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-24 Anuradha Jagannathan

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

We introduce a construction to embed a quasiperiodic lattice of obstacles into a single unit cell of a higher-dimensional space, with periodic boundary conditions. This construction transparently shows the existence of channels in these…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-06-12 Atahualpa S. Kraemer , David P. Sanders

We study some combinatorial and algebraic properties of certain quadratic algebras related with dynamical classical and classical Yang-Baxter equations. One can find more details about the content of present paper in Extended Abstract.

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-06 Anatol N. Kirillov

The thesis is devoted to abstract, geometric and symmetric aspects of modern elementary particle theories. A new direction in constructing supersymmetric and superstring models based on consequent and strong consideration and inclusion of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven Duplij

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

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 can be considered, from the point of view of their electronic properties, as being intermediate between metals and insulators. For example, experiments show that quasicrystalline alloys such as AlCuFe or AlPdMn have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Jagannathan , F. Piechon

Diagram semigroups are interesting algebraic and combinatorial objects, several types of them originating from questions in computer science and in physics. Here we describe diagram semigroups in a general framework and extend our…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-27 James East , Attila Egri-Nagy , Andrew R. Francis , James D. Mitchell

With the rapid development of topological states in crystals, the study of topological states has been extended to quasicrystals in recent years. In this review, we summarize the recent progress of topological states in quasicrystals,…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-04 Jiahao Fan , Huaqing Huang

This work focuses on the combinatorial properties of glued semigroups and provides its combinatorial characterization. Some classical results for affine glued semigroups are generalized and some methods to obtain glued semigroups are…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2015-03-19 J. I. García-García , M. A. Moreno-Frías , A. Vigneron-Tenorio

Model sets (or cut and project sets) provide a familiar and commonly used method of constructing and studying nonperiodic point sets. Here we extend this method to situations where the internal spaces are no longer Euclidean, but instead…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Michael Baake , Robert V. Moody , Martin Schlottmann

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

We describe the upper seminormal crystal structure for the $\mu$-supported $\delta$-vectors for any quiver with potential with reachable frozen vertices, or equivalently for the tropical points of the corresponding cluster $\mc{X}$-variety.…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Jiarui Fei

When flat or on a firm mechanical substrate, the atomic composition and atomistic structure of two-dimensional crystals dictate their chemical, electronic, optical, and mechanical properties. These properties change when the two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-27 Alejandro A. Pacheco Sanjuan , Mehrshad Mehboudi , Edmund O. Harriss , Humberto Terrones , Salvador Barraza-Lopez

One-dimensional quasilattices, namely, the geometrical objects to represent quasicrystals, are classified into mutual local-derivability (MLD) classes. Besides the familiar class, there exist an infinite number of new MLD classes, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Nobuhisa Fujita , Komajiro Niizeki