Possible disordered ground states for close-packed polytypes and their diffraction patterns

Details Possible disordered ground states for close-packed polytypes and their diffraction patterns Possible disordered ground states for close-packed polytypes and their diffraction patterns

1995-03-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9503036v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

29 pages (not including 6 figures : 6 figures are available by requesting via e-mail yi@sapphire.phys.utk.edu), revtex

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.53.5198

It has recently been shown that one-dimensional Ising problems can have degenerate, disordered ground states (GSs) over a finite range of coupling onstants, ie, without `fine tuning'. The disorder is however of a special kind, consisting of arbitrary mixtures of a short-period structure and its symmetry-degenerate partner or partners. In this exploratory study, we assume that the energetics of close-packed polytypes can be represented by an Ising Hamiltonian (which includes, in principle, all terms allowed by symmetry), and that (for simplicity) the close-packed triangular layers are unfaulted and monatomic. We then calculate the diffraction patterns along the stacking direction for the various possible kinds of disordered GSs. We find that some disordered GSs give diffraction patterns which are only weakly distinguished from their periodic counterparts, while in others the disorder is more clearly evident beneath the delta functions. Finally, in some cases, the long-ranged order of the layers is destroyed by the interference among the short-period structures and their symmetry-related partners, giving a diffraction spectrum which is purely continuous.

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