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Minimal configurations for Frenkel-Kontorova model on a quasicrystal

J-M. Gambaudo, P. Guiraud, S. Petite

math-pharXiv:math-ph/0511012

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the Frenkel-Kontorova model of a one dimensional chain of atoms submitted to a potential. This potential splits into an interaction potential and a potential induced by an underlying substrate which is a quasicrystal. Under standard hypotheses, we show that every minimal configuration has a rotation number, that the rotation number varies continuously with the minimal configuration, and that every non negative real number is the rotation number of a minimal configuration. This generalizes well known results obtained by S. Aubry and P.Y. le Daeron in the case of a crystalline substrate.

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