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HAIT Journal of Science and Engineering Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 378-385 © 2004 Holon Academic Institute of Technology | ||||||
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Friction in aperiodic crystals
Ted Janssen
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Nijmegen, | Nijmegen, The Netherlands e-mail: ted@sci.kun.nl Received 17 November 2003, accepted 31 March 2004
| Aperiodic crystals may show low lying excitations related to the possibility of describing these structures in a higher-dimensional space. These phasons and their non-linear extensions are discussed. Conditions are given under which a sliding with low dissipation may occur.
___________________ | Presented at Russian-Israeli Conference Frontiers in Condensed Matter Physics Shoresh, Israel, 19-24 October 2003 |