Quasicrystals: atomic coverings and windows are dual projects

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/32/31/304zbMATH Open1042.82619arXivmath-ph/9904001OpenAlexW3105878505MaRDI QIDQ4947713FDOQ4947713

Peter Kramer

Publication date: 25 April 2000

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the window approach to quasicrystals, the atomic position space E_parallel is embedded into a space E^n = E_parallel + E_perp. Windows are attached to points of a lattice Lambda in E^n. For standard 5fold and icosahedral tiling models, the windows are perpendicular projections of dual Voronoi and Delone cells from Lambda. Their cuts by the position space E_parallel mark tiles and atomic positions. In the alternative covering approach, the position space is covered by overlapping copies of a quasi-unit cell which carries a fixed atomic configuration. The covering and window approach to quasicrystals are shown to be dual projects: D- and V- clusters are defined as projections to position space E_parallel of Delone or Voronoi cells. Decagonal V-clusters in the Penrose tiling, related to the decagon covering, and two types of pentagonal D-clusters in the triangle tiling of 5fold point symmetry with their windows are analyzed. They are linked, cover position space and have definite windows. For functions compatible with the tilings they form domains of definition. For icosahedral tilings the V-clusters are Kepler triacontahedra, the D-clusters are two icosahedra and one dodecahedron.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9904001

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Tilings in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C22)

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