Eur. Phys. J. B 38, 403-407 (2004)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2004-00134-9

A Landau's octagonal quasilattice

Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, Pôle MPQ, FDR CNRS 2437, case courrier 7020, Université Paris-7, 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France

Corresponding author: ^a levy@ccr.jussieu.fr

Received: 23 June 2003
Revised: 28 November 2003
Published online: 28 May 2004

Abstract

An Ammam-Beenker 2D octagonal quasilattice is derived from a Landau like method starting from an octagonal seed. The level of stability of this quasilattice, i.e. the level of difficulty in creating defects, is directly measured.