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振动颗粒物质中的准晶序

Quasi-crystalline order in vibrated granular matter

Andrea Plati, Raphael Maire, Etienne Fayen, Francois Boulogne, Frederic Restagno, Frank Smallenburg, Giuseppe Foffi

AI总结:

本文首次在毫米尺度的宏观球形颗粒振动无热系统中,观察到从类液体无序相自发组装成8重对称准晶体的现象,为非原子系统准晶研究及平衡与非平衡统计物理关联提供新依据。

摘要:

准晶体是一种非周期性结构,其晶体学性质与单一晶胞的性质不兼容。不到三十年前,它们在金属合金中的革命性发现,要求我们重新全面思考对晶体结构的定义。令人惊讶的是,在不同微观系统中,准晶结构也在更大的长度尺度上被发现,这些系统中基本构建块的尺寸范围从纳米到微米级。本文报道了毫米尺度下自发准晶自组装的首次实验观察。该结果是在宏观球形颗粒在基底上振动的完全无热系统中获得的。从类液体的无序相开始,颗粒局部排列成三种方形和三角形“瓦片”,最终对齐形成8重对称准晶体,这一结构已在模拟中预测,但尚未在非原子系统中实验观察到。这些结果不仅证明了自发组装准晶体的新途径,而且对平衡态与非平衡态统计物理之间的联系具有基础意义。

英文摘要:

Quasi-crystals are aperiodic structures that present crystallographic properties which are not compatible with that of a single unit cell. Their revolutionary discovery in a metallic alloy, less than three decades ago, has required a full reconsideration of what we defined as a crystal structure. Surprisingly, quasi-crystalline structures have been discovered also at much larger length scales in different microscopic systems for which the size of elementary building blocks ranges between the nanometric to the micrometric scale. Here, we report the first experimental observation of spontaneous quasi-crystal self-assembly at the millimetric scale. This result is obtained in a fully athermal system of macroscopic spherical grains vibrated on a substrate. Starting from a liquid-like disordered phase, the grains begin to locally arrange into three types of squared and triangular tiles that eventually align, forming 8-fold symmetric quasi-crystal that has been predicted in simulation but not yet observed experimentally in non-atomic systems. These results are not only the proof of a novel route to spontaneously assemble quasi-crystals but are of fundamental interest for the connection between equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics.

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