Brillouin Zones of Integer Lattices and Their Perturbations

arXiv2204.01077MaRDI QIDQ6505686FDOQ6505686

Teresa Heiss, Morteza Saghafian, Mohadese Ghafari, Alexey I. Garber, M. H. M. J. Wintraecken, Herbert Edelsbrunner

Abstract: The $k$-th Brillouin zone of a point in a locally finite set in $mathbb{R}^d$ is the region in which the point is the $k$-closest in the set. If the set is a lattice, the $k$-th Brillouin zones of different points are translates of each other, which tile space. Depending on the value of $k$, they express medium- or long-range order in the set. We study fundamental geometric and combinatorial properties of Brillouin zones, focusing on the integer lattice and its perturbations. Our results include the stability of a Brillouin zone under perturbations, a linear upper bound on the number of chambers in a zone for lattices in $mathbb{R}^2$, and the convergence of the maximum volume of a chamber to zero for the integer lattice.

Has companion code repository: https://github.com/almaho/brillouin_zones_integer_lattices_perturbations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of tessellation and tiling problems (05B45) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35) Tilings in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C22)

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