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Three-dimensional icosahedral phase field quasicrystal
journal contribution
posted on 2016-03-21, 14:35 authored by Priya Subramanian, Andrew ArcherAndrew Archer, Edgar Knobloch, Alastair M. RucklidgeWe investigate the formation and stability of icosahedral quasicrytalline structures using a dynamic phase field crystal model. Nonlinear interactions between density waves at two length scales stabilize three-dimensional quasicrystals. We determine the phase diagram and parameter values required for the quasicrystal to be the global minimum free energy state. We demonstrate that traits that promote the formation of two-dimensional quasicrystals are extant in three dimensions, and highlight the characteristics required for 3D soft matter quasicrystal formation.
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School
- Science
Department
- Mathematical Sciences
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Physical Review LettersVolume
117Issue
7Citation
SUBRAMANIAN, P. ... et al, 2016. Three-dimensional icosahedral phase field quasicrystal. Physical Review Letters 117 (7), 075501.Publisher
© American Physical SocietyVersion
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2016-08-08Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Physical Review Letters and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.075501ISSN
0031-9007eISSN
1079-7114Publisher version
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