Physical properties of an aperiodic monotile with graphene-like features, chirality, and zero modes

J Schirmann, S Franca, F Flicker, AG Grushin - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The discovery of the Hat, an aperiodic monotile, has revealed novel mathematical aspects of
aperiodic tilings. However, the physics of particles propagating in such a setting remains …

Aperiodic approximants bridging quasicrystals and modulated structures

T Matsubara, A Koga, A Takano, Y Matsushita… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Aperiodic crystals constitute a class of materials that includes incommensurate (IC)
modulated structures and quasicrystals (QCs). Although these two categories share a …

Topological magnetic textures and long-range orders in terbium-based quasicrystal and approximant

S Watanabe - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The quasicrystal (QC) possesses a unique lattice structure with rotational symmetry
forbidden in periodic crystals. The electric property is far from complete understanding. It has …

Conventional superconductivity in quasicrystals

RN Araújo, EC Andrade - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Motivated by a recent experimental observation of superconductivity in the Al-Zn-Mg
quasicrystal, we study the low-temperature behavior of electrons moving in the …

Superconducting Quasicrystals

N Takemori - Israel Journal of Chemistry, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Dan Shechtman's discovery of quasicrystals in 1982 introduced the scientific world to
aperiodic crystals with unique rotational symmetries, redefining traditional crystallography …

Nematic superconductivity and its critical vestigial phases in the quasicrystal

YB Liu, J Zhou, F Yang - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We propose a general mechanism to realize nematic superconductivity (SC) and reveal its
exotic vestigial phases in the quasicrystal (QC). Starting from a Penrose-Hubbard model, our …

Quasiperiodic pairing in graphene quasicrystals

R Ghadimi, BJ Yang - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
We investigate the superconducting instabilities of twisted bilayer graphene quasicrystals
(TBGQCs) obtained by stacking two monolayer graphene sheets with 30° relative twisting …

Exotic pairing state in quasicrystalline superconductors under a magnetic field

S Sakai, R Arita - Physical Review Research, 2019 - APS
We theoretically study the effect of a magnetic field on quasicrystalline superconductors, by
modeling them as an attractive Hubbard model on a Penrose-tiling structure. We find that at …

Topological superconductivity in quasicrystals

R Ghadimi, T Sugimoto, K Tanaka, T Tohyama - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We propose realization of non-Abelian topological superconductivity in two-dimensional
quasicrystals by the same mechanism as in crystalline counterparts. Specifically, we study a …

Physical properties of weak-coupling quasiperiodic superconductors

N Takemori, R Arita, S Sakai - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We numerically study the physical properties of quasiperiodic superconductors with the aim
of understanding superconductivity in quasicrystals. Considering the attractive Hubbard …