Seminar series
Date
Tue, 11 Feb 2020
Time
15:30 -
16:30
Location
L3
Speaker
Ron Lifshitz
Organisation
Tel Aviv University
Abstract:
Quasicrystals have been observed recently in soft condensed mater, providing new insight into the ongoing quest to understand their formation and thermodynamic stability. I shall explain the stability of certain soft-matter quasicrystals, using surprisingly simple classical field theories, by making an analogy to Faraday waves. This will provide a recipe for designing pair potentials that yield crystals with (almost) any given symmetry.