Lempel-Ziv Complexity of Photonic Quasicrystals

The properties of one-dimensional photonic quasicrystals ultimately rely on their nontrivial long-range order, a hallmark that can be quantified in many ways depending on the specific aspects to be studied. Here, we assess the quasicrystal structural features in terms of the Lempel-Ziv complexity. T...

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Autores: Monzón Serrano, Juan José, Felipe Ortega, Ángel, Sánchez Soto, Luis Lorenzo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/18202
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18202
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:535.14
535.3
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Quasicrystals
Photonic crystals
Photonic bandgap materials
Física de materiales
Óptica (Física)
2209.19 Óptica Física
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Sumario:The properties of one-dimensional photonic quasicrystals ultimately rely on their nontrivial long-range order, a hallmark that can be quantified in many ways depending on the specific aspects to be studied. Here, we assess the quasicrystal structural features in terms of the Lempel-Ziv complexity. This is an easily calculable quantity that has proven to be useful for describing patterns in a variety of systems. One feature of great practical relevance is that it provides a reliable measure of how hard it is to create the structure. Using the generalized Fibonacci quasicrystals as our thread, we give analytical fitting formulas for the dependence of the optical response with the complexity.