A new binary decagonal Frank-Kasper quasicrystal phase

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30 September 1996

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9609281

Abstract

A structure model of atoms of two sizes, interacting with Lennard-Jones potentials and simulated by molecular dynamics, was observed to freeze into a decagonal quasicrystal dominated by Frank-Kasper coordination shells and closely related to the Henley-Elser model for icosahedral quasicrystals. Idealized structure models can be described as decorations of triangle-rectangle and rhombus tilings. Equilibrium properties of the idealized model have been determined by molecular dynamics simulations and a high stability of the model and a low jump rate of the atoms have also been observed.

Keywords

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS
SIMULATED BY MOLECULAR
KASPER QUASICRYSTAL
QUASICRYSTAL
FRANK KASPER
DECAGONAL
MODEL

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Version 1, 1996-09-30, ArXiv
Published version: Philosophical Magazine A, 75 (3), 861.

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