23 research outputs found
Clusters, phason elasticity, and entropic stabilisation: a theory perspective
Full text linkPersonal comments are made about the title subjects, including: the relation
of Friedel oscillations to Hume-Rothery stabilisation; how calculations may
resolve the random-tiling versus ideal pictures of quasicrystals; and the role
of entropies apart from tile-configurational.Comment: IOP macros; 8pp, 1 figure. In press, Phil. Mag. A (Proc. Intl. Conf.
on Quasicrystals 9, Ames Iowa, May 2005
