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Aperiodic Crystals
From Modulated Phases to Quasicrystals
Janssen, Ted Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Nijmegen
Chapuis, Gervais Department of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
de Boissieu, Marc CNRS researcher, Laboratoire de Thermodynamique Physico Chimie Metallurgique, Grenoble
Print publication date: 2007 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-856777-6







doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198567776.003.0003

Ted Janssen
Gervais Chapuis
Marc de Boissieu
Abstract: This chapter discusses mathematical models for studying the basic properties of crystals. Topics covered include model sets, introduction of tilings, aperiodic tilings, approximants, coverings, and random tilings.

Keywords: crystals, model sets, aperiodic tilings, approximants, random tilings, tilings,

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