Hamiltonian Cycles on Ammann-Beenker Tilings

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Hauptverfasser: Singh, Shobhna, Lloyd, Jerome, Flicker, Felix
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author Singh, Shobhna
Lloyd, Jerome
Flicker, Felix
author_facet Singh, Shobhna
Lloyd, Jerome
Flicker, Felix
contents We provide a simple algorithm for constructing Hamiltonian graph cycles (visiting every vertex exactly once) on a set of arbitrarily large finite subgraphs 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 traveling 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 three-coloring 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.
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spellingShingle Hamiltonian Cycles on Ammann-Beenker Tilings
Singh, Shobhna
Lloyd, Jerome
Flicker, Felix
Statistical Mechanics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mathematical Physics
We provide a simple algorithm for constructing Hamiltonian graph cycles (visiting every vertex exactly once) on a set of arbitrarily large finite subgraphs 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 traveling 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 three-coloring 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.
title Hamiltonian Cycles on Ammann-Beenker Tilings
topic Statistical Mechanics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01940