incommensuration

English

Noun

incommensuration (plural incommensurations)

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   • 1997 November 21, Sudip Chakravarty, “CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS: Enhanced: Quantum Magnetism and Its Many Avatars” ^doi[1], Science, volume 278, number 5342, DOI:10.1126/science.278.5342.1412, pages 1412-1413: 

     To see how striking this incommensuration is, I plotted (see figure) the real part of the plane wave with Q = ( p [1- d ]/a, p /a), for a = 3.8 Å, with smooth interpolation between the lattice points.