Quasicrystals - A Primer

Zusatztext Quasicrystals, Second Edition is an excellent, mathematical sophisticated primer to a new and very interesting state of matter. Informationen zum Autor Christian Janot, Reader, Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France Klappentext This primer provides a descriptive approach to the subject of quasicrystals for those coming to it for the first time. The various practical, experimental, and theoretical topics are dealt with in an accessible style. The book is completed by problem sets and there is a computer program that generates a Penrose lattice. Zusammenfassung This primer provides a descriptive approach to the subject of quasicrystals for those coming to it for the first time. The various practical, experimental, and theoretical topics are dealt with in an accessible style. The book is completed by problem sets and there is a computer program that generates a Penrose lattice. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: How to fill space with atoms in condensed matter states 2: Real quasicrystals: preparation and characterization 3: High-dimensional crystallography 4: Where are the atoms? 5: Phonons, phasons, and dislocations in quasicrystals 6: A little more about the physics of quasicrystals

Product details

• Authors: C. Janot, Christian Janot, Christian (Reader Janot, Janot Christian
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.10.2012
• EAN: 9780199657407
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965740-7
• No. of pages: 428
• Series: Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences; Oxford Classic Texts in the Ph; Oxford Classic Texts in the Ph; Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; SCIENCE / Physics / Crystallography, Materials science, Physical Chemistry, Crystallography, Inorganic Chemistry