https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2002-00345-0
Genetic Algorithms as a tool in the study of aperiodic order, with application to the case of X-Ray diffraction spectra of GaAs-AlAs multilayer heterostructures
1
INRIA - Rocquencourt, BP 105, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France
2
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (CNRS UMR 8502) , bâtiment 510, Université Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
Corresponding author: a Evelyne.Lutton@inria.fr
Received:
18
March
2002
Revised:
3
July
2002
Published online:
31
October
2002
We present the first application of Genetic Algorithms to the analysis of data from an aperiodically ordered system, high resolution X-Ray diffraction spectra from multilayer heterostructures arranged according to a deterministic or random scheme. This method paves the way to the solution of the “inverse problem”, that is the retrieval of the generating disorder from the investigation of the spectra of an unknown sample having non crystallographic, non quasi-crystallographic order.
PACS: 02.50.-r – Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics / 05.90.+m – Other topics in statistical physics, thermodynamics, and nonlinear dynamical systems / 61.10.-i – X-ray diffraction and scattering / 61.43.-j – Disordered solids
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2002
