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Solid-state physics: How does your quasicrystal grow?
Paul J. Steinhardt1
Abstract
Somewhere between the amorphous glasses and the rigidly regimented periodic crystals lie the quasicrystals: ordered, predictable, yet non-periodic arrangements of atoms. How do these strange structures form?
Just as it's easy to construct a mosaic of square tiles simply by adding tiles one at a time, so it's little trouble for atoms to arrange themselves into an analogous, perfectly periodic pattern: a crystal. The rules for constructing another class of mosaic — a quasicrystal — seem to be much more complex.
- Paul J. Steinhardt is in the Department of Physics and the Center for Theoretical Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-0708, USA.
Email: steinh@princeton.edu
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