Topological Boundary Floppy Modes in Quasicrystals

Topological mechanics has been studied intensively in periodic lattices in the past a few years, leading to the discovery of topologically protected boundary floppy modes in Maxwell lattices. In this paper, we extend this concept to two-dimensional quasicrystalline parallelogram tilings, and we use...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Di Zhou, Leyou Zhang, Xiaoming Mao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2019-06-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.021054