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Title: Can one hear the shape of a crystal?
Isospectrality is a general fundamental concept often involving whether various operators can have identical spectra, i.e., the same set of eigenvalues. In the context of the Laplacian operator, the famous question “Can one hear the shape of a drum?” concerns whether different shaped drums can have the same vibrational modes. The isospectrality of a lattice in d -dimensional Euclidean space R d is a tantamount to whether it is uniquely determined by its theta series, i.e., the radial distribution function g 2 ( r ) . While much is known about the isospectrality of Bravais lattices across dimensions, little is known about this question of more general crystal (periodic) structures with an n -particle basis ( n ≥ 2 ). Here, we ask what is n min ( d ) , the minimum value of n for inequivalent (i.e., unrelated by isometric symmetries) crystals with the same theta function in space dimension d ? To answer these questions, we use rigorous methods as well as a precise numerical algorithm that enables us to determine the minimum multiparticle basis of inequivalent isospectral crystals. Our algorithm identifies isospectral four-, three- and two-particle bases in one, two, and three spatial dimensions, respectively. For many of these isospectral crystals, we rigorously show that they indeed possess identically the same g 2 ( r ) 's for all values of r . Based on our analyses, we conjecture that n min ( d ) = 4 , 3, 2 for d = 1 , 2, 3, respectively. The identification of isospectral crystals enables one to study the degeneracy of the ground-state under the action of isotropic pair potentials. Indeed, using inverse statistical-mechanical techniques, we find an isotropic pair potential whose low-temperature configurations in two dimensions obtained via simulated annealing can lead to both of two isospectral crystal structures with n = 3 , the proportion of which can be controlled by the cooling rate. Our findings provide general insights into the structural and ground-state degeneracies of crystal structures as determined by radial pair information. Published by the American Physical Society2024  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2133179
PAR ID:
10565174
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Physical Review Research
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Physical Review Research
Volume:
6
Issue:
4
ISSN:
2643-1564
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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