Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Metallic-mean quasicrystals as aperiodic approximants of periodic crystals

  • Joichiro Nakakura,
  • Primož Ziherl,
  • Junichi Matsuzawa,
  • Tomonari Dotera

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12147-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Quasicrystals differ from traditional incommensurate structures because they have non-crystallographic rotational symmetries. Here the authors introduce a scheme to produce metallic-mean quasicrystals in two dimensions with 6-fold rotational symmetry that can be seen as approximant to periodic tilings.