Elsevier Quasicrystals (Volume 3) (Handbook of Metal Physics, Volume 3)

This book is aimed at researchers who are working in a field of quasicrystals to provide a reference to recent developments and ideas in the field and also at graduate students, who intend to study quasicrystals, to provide introduction of ideas. Topics in this book cover an entire field of quasicrystals, both experimental and theoretical, including new developments: the state of the art in quasicrystallography, new families of quasicrystals, phasons in aperiodic solids, ab initio studies on stability mechanism, quantum transport phenomena, elastic/plastic properties and surface of quasicrystals. · Comprehensive reviews by experts in the field · Complete reference of original papers and new topics · Intelligible introduction of quasicrystals by experts From the Back Cover Discovery of quasicrystals? was one of the most exciting innovations in science of the 20th century because it had been believed since the 19th century that the five-fold symmetry can never exist in equilibrium condensed phases. In the last two decades, it has been recognized that quasicrystal is not unusual but one of the universal phases of matter. Discovery of new materials stimulates further developments of our understanding of this novel matter phase and a frontier of the quasicrystal research is still extending. This book is a collection of comprehensive reviews by experts in the field on topics, which cover an entire field of quasicrystals, both experimental and theoretical, including new developments. Intended readers are researchers who are working in a field of quasicrystals and graduate students who intend to study quasicrystals. This book provides a reference to recent developments in the field and also introduction of the ideas developed in the last two decades. Topics involved are, the state of the art in quasicrystallography, new families of quasicrystals, phasons in aperiodic solids, ab-initio studies on stability mechanism, quantum transport phenomena, elastic/plastic properties and surface of quasicrystals.|Discovery of quasicrystals was one of the most exciting innovations in science of the 20th century because it had been believed since the 19th century that the five-fold symmetry can never exist in equilibrium condensed phases. In the last two decades, it has been recognized that quasicrystal is not unusual but one of the universal phases of matter. Discovery of new materials stimulates further developments of our understanding of this novel matter phase and a frontier of the quasicrystal research is still extending. This book is a collection of comprehensive reviews by experts in the field on topics, which cover an entire field of quasicrystals, both experimental and theoretical, including new developments. Intended readers are researchers who are working in a field of quasicrystals and graduate students who intend to study quasicrystals. This book provides a reference to recent developments in the field and also introduction of the ideas developed in the last two decades. Topics involved are, the state of the art in quasicrystallography, new families of quasicrystals, phasons in aperiodic solids, ab-initio studies on stability mechanism, quantum transport phenomena, elastic/plastic properties and surface of quasicrystals. About the Author Takeo Fujiwara has been working on quasicrystals since soon after the discovery of quasicrystals and contributing to developing new ideas on quasicrystals: TF are working on mainly electronic structures of quasiperiodic systems and real quasicrystalline materials and YI are working on “phason-related instability of quasicrystals as well as electronic structures. Yasushi Ishii has been working on quasicrystals since soon after the discovery of quasicrystals and contributing to developing new ideas on quasicrystals: TF are working on mainly electronic structures of quasiperiodic systems and real quasicrystalline materials and YI are working on “phason-related instabili