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Symmetries of Quasicrystals

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We consider tiling models of “round quasicrystals” which would have diffraction patterns which are fully rotation invariant—rings instead of Bragg peaks. They can be distinguished from glasses by self-similarity of the pattern of radii of the rings.

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Radin, C. Symmetries of Quasicrystals. Journal of Statistical Physics 95, 827–833 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004516030941

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