Confirmation of the random tiling hypothesis for a decagonal quasicrystal.
Phys Rev Lett
; 109(22): 225502, 2012 Nov 30.
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ABSTRACT
Mechanisms that stabilize quasicrystals are much discussed but not finally resolved. We confirm the random tiling hypothesis and its predictions in a fully atomistic decagonal quasicrystal model by calculating the free energy and the phason elastic constants over a wide range of temperatures. The Frenkel-Ladd method is applied for the phonon part, and an approach of uncorrelated phason flips is applied for the configurational part. When lowering the temperature, a phase transition to an approximant occurs. Close to the transition temperature, one of the phason elastic constants becomes soft.
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