Tag: condensed matter physics

• The twelve-fold way (Science Advent 2)

  (Every day until December 25, I’m posting a science-related image and description.) Day 2 Many solids are crystalline: the atoms are arranged in repeating patterns, such as cubes (with several variants), hexagons,  and other regular structures. Others are irregular, and we call that type “glass”. Between those are the quasicrystals: solids that have regular structures,…

  Matthew R. Francis

  December 2, 2013

  Astronomy, Physics, and Related Fields

  Advent 2013, condensed matter physics, materials science, quasicrystals