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Publication
Physical Review B
Paper
Constrained spin model of phason dynamics in quasicrystals
Abstract
Inspired by phason dynamics in tiling models of quasicrystals, we investigate a class of constrained Ising models. Phason shifts in the Penrose tiling model of quasicrystals appear as flips of rows of tiles, known as worms. When worms cross one another, a hierarchy is established in which some of the worms cannot flip until others have. A complex set of constraints on worm flips is thereby introduced by the intricate pattern of worm crossings in quasicrystalline tilings. We introduce a simple model of interacting sets of one-dimensional Ising chains that mimics this set of constraints and study the possible consequences of these constraints for phason dynamics and the relaxation of phason strain in quasicrystals. © 1990 The American Physical Society.