Re-gauging groupoid, symmetries and degeneracies for graph Hamiltonians and applications to the gyroid wire network (Q295520)

Quantum wire networks have drown increasing attention in recent years. Interfaces that can be modeled by surfaces of constant mean curvature (CMC) are ubiquitous in nature and can now be synthesized in laboratory. Recently, a fabrication of a nano-porous silica film was reported whose structure is related to a specific CMC surface which is called the gyroid. The structure is three-dimensionally periodic and has three components: a thick surface and two channels. The interface between the wall and the channels approximates a double gyroid. In some recent papers, a nanofabrication technique has also been proposed in which the channels are filled with a metal, while the silica wall can be either left in place or removed. These novel materials open a wide field of applications due to their topological and geometric features as well as Euler and Hamiltonian graphs with their well-known efficient applications in crystallography. On the base of the gyroid notion a gyroid graph notion is introduced. Here, the resulting geometry and topology of these networks are discussed in detail with use of the above-mentioned terminology and notions. There are 23 references.