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Nucleation of quasicrystals by rapid cooling of a binary melt: A molecular-dynamics study.
Johannes RothHans-rainer TrebinRolf Schillingsubject
Molecular dynamicsCooling rateMaterials scienceIcosahedral symmetryPhase (matter)Physics::Atomic and Molecular ClustersNucleationBinary numberThermodynamicsQuasicrystaldescription
A binary Lennard-Jones fluid was cooled in an NPT ensemble by molecular-dynamics simulations. Depending on the cooling rate, we find a sharp transition from the melt either into a disordered structure or into a phase of icosahedral long-range order. We also observed a decagonal phase.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995-06-01 | Physical review. B, Condensed matter |