incommensuration

noun — 3 senses

incommensuration

noun
1

The quality or state of being incommensurate or contradictory.

2

A crystal structure where natural translation distances are incommensurate with each other.

3

Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Incommensurate peaks in the spin fluctuation spectrum.

  • 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.1997 November 21, Sudip Chakravarty, “CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS: Enhanced: Quantum Magnetism and Its Many Avatars”, in Science, volume 278, number 5342, →DOI, pages 1412–1413:

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