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Over the past several decades, a This book deals with the
characterisation of the structure, the structure determination and
the study of the physical properties, especially dynamical and
electronic properties of aperiodic crystals. The treatment is based
on a description in a space with more dimensions than three, the
so-called superspace. This allows us to generalise the standard
crystallography and to look differently at the dynamics. The three
main classes of aperiodic crystals, modulated phases,
incommensurate composites and quasicrystals are treated from a
unified point of view, which stresses similarities of the various
systems. The book assumes as a prerequisite a knowledge of the
fundamental techniques of crystallography and the theory of
condensed matter, and covers the literature at the forefront of the
field. Since the first edition of this book in 2007, the field of
aperiodic crystals has developed considerably, with the discovery
of new materials and new structures. Progress has been made in
structure determination, in the interpretation and understanding of
the structural characteristics and in the calculation of electrons
and phonons. This new edition reflects these new developments, and
it includes discussions of natural quasicrystals, incommensurate
magnetic and multiferroic structures, photonic and mesoscopic
quasicrystals. The second edition also includes a number of new
exercises that give the reader an opportunityt to check their
understanding of the material.
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