From multi-site to on-site transfer matrix models for self-similar chains

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 90, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 261-284

  Lamb, Jeroen S W ^a   Wijnands, Frank ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b R and D Devices   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Quasicrystals; Renormalization; Schr dinger equation; Substitution rules; Trace maps

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031622199     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1023212020202     Document Type: Article

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