We investigate the high temperature decagonal quasicrystalline phase of Al72Ni20Co8 using a quasilattice gas Monte-Carlo simulation. To avoid biasing towards a specific model we use an over-dense site list with a large fraction of free sites, permitting the simulation to explore an extended region of perpendicular space. Representing the atomic surface occupancy in a basis of harmonic functions directly reveals the 5-fold symmetric component of our data. Occupancy is examined in physical and perpendicular space.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0402369,
title = {Equilibrium structure of decagonal AlNiCo},
author = {S. Naidu and M. Mihalkovic and M. Widom},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0402369},
year = {2007}
}