Tiling theory applied to the surface structure of icosahedral AlPdMn quasicrystals
Peter Kramer; Zorka Papadopolos; Harald Teuscher; Peter Kramer; Institut für Theoretische Physik der Universität Tübingen, Germany; Zorka Papadopolos; Institut für Theoretische Physik der Universität Tübingen, Germany; Harald Teuscher; Institut für Theoretische Physik der Universität Tübingen, Germany
Журнал:
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Дата:
1999-04-05
Аннотация:
Surfaces of as observed in scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) experiments show atomic terraces in a Fibonacci spacing. We analyse them in a bulk tiling model due to Elser which incorporates many experimental data. The model has dodecahedral Bergman clusters within an icosahedral tiling and is projected from the six-dimensional face-centred hypercubic lattice. We derive the occurrence and Fibonacci spacing of atomic planes perpendicular to any fivefold axis, compute the variation of planar atomic densities, and determine the (auto-) correlation functions. Upon interpreting the planes as terraces at the surface, we find quantitative agreement with the STM experiments.
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