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Beyond Quasicrystals : Les Houches, March 7-18, 1994, PDF eBook

Beyond Quasicrystals : Les Houches, March 7-18, 1994 PDF

Edited by Francoise Axel, Denis Gratias

Part of the Centre de Physique des Houches series

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This book is the collection of most of the written versions of the Courses given at the Winter School "Beyond Quasicrystals" in Les Houches (March 7-18, 1994).

The School gathered lecturers and participants from all over the world and was prepared in the spirit of a general effort to promote theoretical and experimental interdisciplinary communication between mathematicians, theoretical and experimental physicists on the topic of the nature of geometric order in solids beyond standard periodicity and quasi periodicity.

The overall structure of the book reflects the wish of the editors to pose this fundamental question of geometric order in solids from both the experimental and theoretical point of view.

The first part is devoted more specifically to quasicrystals.

These materials were the common starting point of most of the audience and present a first concrete example of a non-trivial geometric order.

We chose to focus on a few fundamental aspects of quasicrystals related to hidden symmetries in solids which are not easily found in standard textbooks on the topic, not to reach an exhaustive survey which is already available elsewhere.

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