학술논문

Revealing the topology of quasicrystals with a diffraction experiment
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 215304 (2017)
Subject
Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Condensed Matter - Materials Science
Physics - Optics
Quantum Physics
Language
Abstract
Topological properties of crystals and quasicrystals is a subject of recent and growing interest. This Letter reports an experiment where, for certain quasicrystals, these properties can be directly retrieved from diffraction. We directly observe, using an interferometric approach, all the topological invariants of finite-length Fibonacci chains in their diffraction pattern. We also demonstrate quantitatively the stability of these topological invariants with respect to structural disorder.
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