Published April 1, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

A family of ternary decagonal tilings

  • 1. Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577 (Japan)

Description

A new family of decagonal quasiperiodic tilings are constructed by the use of generalized point substitution processes, which is a new substitution formalism developed by the author [N. Fujita, Acta Cryst. A 65, 342 (2009)]. These tilings are composed of three prototiles: an acute rhombus, a regular pentagon and a barrel shaped hexagon. In the perpendicular space, these tilings have windows with fractal boundaries, and the windows are analytically derived as the fixed sets of the conjugate maps associated with the relevant substitution rules. It is shown that the family contains an infinite number of local isomorphism classes which can be grouped into several symmetry classes (e.g., C10, D5, etc.). The member tilings are transformed into one another through collective simpleton flips, which are associated with the reorganization in the window boundaries.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/226/1/012021

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online)
Journal Volume
226
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
[7 p.]
ISSN
1742-6596

Conference

Title
6. international conference on aperiodic crystals
Acronym
APERIODIC'09
Dates
13-18 Sep 2009
Place
Liverpool (United Kingdom)

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42046592
Subject category
S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DESIGN; FRACTALS; PERIODICITY; SYMMETRY
Descriptors DEC
VARIATIONS