Physical Review Letters · 1985 · 100 citations · 14 references
Materials ScienceCrystal StructureBond-orientational OrderEngineeringPhysicsIcosahedral Quasicrystalline PhaseNatural SciencesCrystal MaterialApplied PhysicsQuantum MaterialsCondensed Matter PhysicsWave VectorsPhysical ChemistryQuantum ChemistryTopological PhaseCrystallographyCrystal Structure Design
It is shown that a quartic orientational free energy leads to long-range icosahedral bond-orientational order which, through a coupling with a translational order parameter, stabilizes the icosahedral quasicrystalline phase. The bond-orientational order selects the wave vectors which point into vertices or faces of an icosahedron.
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