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Condensed Matter > Statistical Mechanics

Title: Hamiltonian cycles on Ammann-Beenker Tilings

Abstract: We provide a simple algorithm for constructing Hamiltonian graph cycles (visiting every vertex exactly once) on the set of aperiodic two-dimensional Ammann-Beenker (AB) tilings. Using this result, and the discrete scale symmetry of AB tilings, we find exact solutions to a range of other problems which lie in the complexity class NP-Complete for general graphs. These include the equal-weight travelling salesperson problem, providing for example the most efficient route a scanning tunneling microscope tip could take to image the atoms of physical quasicrystals with AB symmetries; the longest path problem, whose solution demonstrates that collections of flexible molecules of any length can adsorb onto AB quasicrystal surfaces at density one, with possible applications to catalysis; and the 3-colouring problem, giving ground states for the $q$-state Potts model ($q\ge 3$) of magnetic interactions defined on the planar dual to AB, which may provide useful models for protein folding.
Comments: 25 pages, 14 figures
Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:2302.01940 [cond-mat.stat-mech]
  (or arXiv:2302.01940v3 [cond-mat.stat-mech] for this version)

Submission history

From: Shobhna Singh [view email]
[v1] Fri, 3 Feb 2023 19:00:01 GMT (5325kb,D)
[v2] Mon, 6 Mar 2023 17:38:35 GMT (8527kb,D)
[v3] Wed, 26 Jul 2023 20:06:50 GMT (5311kb,D)

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