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Solitons and coreless defects in icosahedral quasicrystals

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New types of spatially non-uniform excitations in icosahedral quasicrystalline lattices — solitons and coreless defects — are studied by the projection and topology techniques. The topological charges of particle-like solitons are revealed, each represents the set (z 1,z 2) of integers. The coreless defects are found to be topologically unstable excitations.

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  1. Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Machine Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Bolshoj 61 Vas. Ostrov, SU-199178, Leningrad, USSR

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Ovid'ko, I.A. Solitons and coreless defects in icosahedral quasicrystals. Z. Physik B - Condensed Matter 77, 409–412 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01453790

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