title: One-Dimensional Quasicrystals from Incommensurate Charge Order.
abstract: Artificial quasicrystals are nowadays routinely manufactured, yet only two naturally occurring examples are known. We present a class of systems with the potential to be realized both artificially and in nature, in which the lowest energy state is a one-dimensional quasicrystal. These systems are based on incommensurately charge-ordered materials, in which the quasicrystalline phase competes with the formation of a regular array of discommensurations as a way of interpolating between incommensurate charge order at high temperatures and commensurate order at low temperatures. The nonlocal correlations characteristic of the quasicrystalline state emerge from a free-energy contribution localized in reciprocal space. We present a theoretical phase diagram showing that the required material properties for the appearance of such a ground state allow for one-dimensional quasicrystals to form in real materials. The result is a potentially wide class of one-dimensional quasicrystals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Felix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Flicker
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GL Amsterdam, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Jasper
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van Wezel