Dynamics of particle flips in two-dimensional quasicrystals

Details Dynamics of particle flips in two-dimensional quasicrystals Dynamics of particle flips in two-dimensional quasicrystals

2010-06-09

arxiv.org/abs/1006.1836v2

Phys. Rev. B 82, 134206 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

10 pages, 14 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.82.134206

The dynamics of quasicrystals is more complicated than the dynamics of periodic solids and difficult to study in experiments. Here, we investigate a decagonal and a dodecagonal quasicrystal using molecular dynamics simulations of the Lennard-Jones-Gauss interaction system. We observe that the short time dynamics is dominated by stochastic particle motion, so-called phason flips, which can be either single-particle jumps or correlated ring-like multi-particle moves. Over long times, the flip mechanism is efficient in reordering the quasicrystals and can generate diffusion. The temperature dependence of diffusion is described by an Arrhenius law. We also study the spatial distribution and correlation of mobile particles by analyzing the dynamic propensity.

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