The remarkable nature of one-dimensional quasicrystal

Abstract

Abstract A material is spherically uniform when its generalized Hooke´s law at each material point referred to a spherical coordinate system is the same everywhere. We study a sphere of spherically uniform linear anisotropic one-dimensional quasicrystalline material subjected to radial phonon and phason strains on its surface. For a certain range of material parameters the phonon as well as the phason stress diverges at the center. The applied phason strain does not affect the phonon field but the phason field is disturbed by the phonon strain. “White hole” at the center may occur when the sphere is subjected to uniform tension while uniform pressure may cause a “black hole”. This behavior depends only on a dimensionless material parameter and the kind of applied strain but not on its magnitude.