Imaging quasiperiodic electronic states in a synthetic Penrose tiling
Imaging quasiperiodic electronic states in a synthetic Penrose tiling
Quasicrystals possess long-range order but lack the translational symmetry of crystalline solids. In solid state physics, periodicity is one of the fundamental properties that prescribes the electronic band structure in crystals. In the absence of periodicity and the presence of quasicrystalline order, the ways that electronic states change remain a …