Random tiling quasicrystals in three dimensions

Details Random tiling quasicrystals in three dimensions Random tiling quasicrystals in three dimensions

1997-06-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9706117v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

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Three-dimensional icosahedral random tilings with rhombohedral cells are studied in the semi-entropic model. We introduce a global energy measure defined by the variance of the quasilattice points in the orthogonal space. The internal energy, the specific heat, the configuration entropy and the sheet magnetization (as defined by Dotera and Steinhardt [Phys.Rev.Lett. 72 (1994) 1670]) have been calculated. The specific heat shows a Schottky anomaly which might indicate a phase transition from an ordered quasicrystal to a random tiling. But the divergence with the sample size as well as the divergence of the susceptibility are too small to pinpoint the phase transition conclusively. The self-diffusion coefficients closely follow an Arrhenius law, but show plateaus at intermediate temperature ranges which are explained by energy barriers between different tiling configurations due to the harmonic energy measure. There exists a correlation between the temperature behavior of the self-diffusion coefficient and the frequency of vertices which are able to flip (simpletons). Furthermore we demonstrate that the radial distribution function and the radial structure factor only depend slightly on the random tiling configuration. Hence, radially symmetric pair potentials lead to an energetical equidistribution of all configurations of a canonical random tiling ensemble and do not enforce matching rules.

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