Over the past decade, the Anderson localization of light and a wide variety of associated
phenomena have come to the forefront of research. Numerous investigations have been …

The physics of periodic systems are of fundamental importance and result in various
phenomena that govern wave transport and interference. However, deviations from …

The discovery of new solids exhibiting symmetries forbidden for ordinary crystals was first
reported by Shechtman, Blech, Gratias and Cahn (1984) in Al-Mn and Al-Mn-Si alloys. In the …

The distinctive electronic properties of quasicrystals stem from their long-range structural
order, with invariance under rotations and under discrete scale change, but without …

The aim of this book is to acquaint the reader with what the authors regard as the most basic
characteristics of quasicrystals--structure, formation and stability, and properties--in …

In this work we consider the role of aperiodic order in different domains of science and
technology from an interdisciplinary approach. To start with, we introduce some general …

Quasicrystals are aperiodic structures with rotational symmetries forbidden to conventional
periodic crystals; examples of quasicrystals can be found in aluminum alloys, polymers, and …

We develop a new real-space method which allows one to evaluate the Kubo-Greenwood
formula for dc conductivity of independent electrons in a static potential. We apply it to a …

Aluminum based alloys which contain transition metal elements with concentrations up to
25% and additional small quantities of silicon, have a wide variety of atomic structures with …

We study the kinetic temperature and the localization of cesium atoms in a three
dimensional quasiperiodic optical potential created by the interference of five or six laser …