Ordering of rare gas films on a decagonal Al-Ni-Co quasicrystal

Details Ordering of rare gas films on a decagonal Al-Ni-Co quasicrystal Ordering of rare gas films on a decagonal Al-Ni-Co quasicrystal

2006-10-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0610677v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

9 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, to appear in Philos. Mag. (2006)

Scientific paper

10.1080/14786430701370843

This paper reviews recent progress in the study of rare gas films on quasicrystalline surfaces. The adsorption of Xe on the 10-fold surface of decagonal Al-Ni-Co was studied using low-energy electron diffraction (LEED). The results of these studies prompted the development of a theoretical model, which successfully reproduced the thermodynamic parameters found in the experiment. Grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations for Xe produced structures agreed with the experimental observations of the adsorption structures and provided a deeper insight into the nature of the ordering. A first-order commensurate-incommensurate transition that involves a transition from a quasicrystalline five-fold stucture to a periodic hexagonal structure was discovered and characterized for the Xe monolayer. The five rotational domains of the hexagonal structure observed in the LEED study were shown in the GCMC study to be mediated by pentagonal defects that are entropic in nature, and not by substrate defects. The GCMC study found an absence of any such transition for Kr, Ar and Ne on the same surface. A detailed analysis of this transition led to the conclusion that the formation of the hexagonal layer depends on matching the gas and substrate characteristic lengths.

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