Equilibrium configurations for generalized Frenkel-Kontorova models on quasicrystals

DOI10.1007/S00220-019-03557-7MaRDI QIDQ2326889zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rodrigo Treviño

Publication date 10 October 2019

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04811

zbMATH Keywords

Frenkel-Kontorova modelquasicrystals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20)

Abstract: I study classes of generalized Frenkel-Kontorova models whose potentials are given by almost-periodic functions which are closely related to aperiodic Delone sets of finite local complexity. Since such Delone sets serve as good models for quasicrytals, this setup presents Frenkel-Kontorova models for the type of aperiodic crystals which have been discovered since Shechtman's discovery of quasicrystals. Here I consider models with configurations $u:mathbb{Z}^{r}ightarrowmathbb{R}^d$, where $d$ is the dimension of the quasicrystal, for any $r$ and $d$. The almost-periodic functions used for potentials are called pattern-equivariant and I show that if the interactions of the model satisfies a mild $C^2$ requirement, and if the potential satisfies a mild non-degeneracy assumption, then there exist equilibrium configurations of any prescribed rotation rotation number/vector/plane. The assumptions are general enough to satisfy the classical Frenkel-Kontorova models and its multidimensional analogues. The proof uses the idea of the anti-integrable limit.

Review text

The author of this work considers the so-called Frenkel-Kontorova model, which describes a nearest-neighbour interaction of particles in an external potential modelling, e.g. dislocations in solids. Here the potentials are given by almost-periodic functions that correspond to aperiodic crystals (quasicrystals). It is proven an existence of equilibrium configurations for such generalized case of the Frenkel-Kontorova model.

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