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Motivated by theoretically and experimentally observed structural phases with octagonal symmetry, we introduce families of octagonal tilings composed of three prototiles. These tilings are defined by substitution rules with inflation factors δ(m,n) = m + n(1 + √2), where m, n are nonnegative integers. We consider the cases (m, n) = (1, 1), (2, 2), (1, 2), (3, 2) and describe their basic properties. In addition, we discuss variants of the first three cases, and for (1, 1) we derive the relative frequencies of the vertex stars.
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Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances publishes articles reporting advances in the theory and practice of all areas of crystallography in the broadest sense. As well as traditional crystallography, this includes nanocrystals, metacrystals, amorphous materials, quasicrystals, synchrotron and XFEL studies, coherent scattering, diffraction imaging, time-resolved studies and the structure of strain and defects in materials.
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The central themes of the journal are, on the one hand, experimental and theoretical studies of the properties and arrangements of atoms, ions and molecules in condensed matter, periodic, quasiperiodic or amorphous, ideal or real, and, on the other, the theoretical and experimental aspects of the various methods to determine these properties and arrangements.