The main goal of the paper is to contribute to the agenda of developing an algorithmic model for crystallization and measuring the complexity of crystals by constructing embeddings of 3D parallelohedra into a primitive cubic network (pcu net). It is proved that any parallelohedron P as well as tiling by P, except the rhombic dodecahedron, can be embedded into the 3D pcu net. It is proved that for the rhombic dodecahedron embedding into the 3D pcu net does not exist; however, embedding into the 4D pcu net exists. The question of how many ways the embedding of a parallelohedron can be constructed is answered. For each parallelohedron, the deterministic finite automaton is developed which models the growth of the crystalline structure with the same combinatorial type as the given parallelohedron.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)698-712
Number of pages15
JournalActa Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances
Volume76
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2020

    Scopus subject areas

  • Structural Biology
  • Biochemistry
  • Materials Science(all)
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry

    Research areas

  • crystalline structures, deterministic finite automata, parallelohedra, primitive cubic nets, structural automata

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