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The exotic transport properties expected for incommensurate crystals, due to the fragmented nature of their energy bands, are shown to be usually unobservable because of intrinsic defects in the crystal structure and the usually weak nature of the modulation potential. Two systems for which they might be observable, however, are some artificially grown superlattices and quasi-crystals.
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Sokoloff, J.B. (1987). Are Exotic Consequences of Incommensurability in Solids Experimentally Observable?. In: Scott, J.F., Clark, N.A. (eds) Incommensurate Crystals, Liquid Crystals, and Quasi-Crystals. NATO ASI Series, vol 166. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0184-5_4
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