Low-temperature stability of quasicrystals

✍ Scribed by J. Miȩkisz

• Book ID: 103896398
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 245 KB
• Volume: 232
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4371
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(96)00175-6

✦ Synopsis

We discuss classical lattice-gas models without periodic ground states. To prove the thermodynamic stability of such systems we have to construct nonperiodie equilibrium states which are small perturbations of ground states. We review partial results in this direction and discuss possibilities of constructing a model with nonperiodic equilibrium states. It would be a microscopic (toy) model of a quasicrystal, a system of interacting particles with a stable nonperiodic equilibrium state.