Stability of the hard-sphere icosahedral quasilattice
Condensed Matter
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
The stability of the hard-sphere icosahedral quasilattice is analyzed using the differential formulation of the generalized effective liquid approximation. We find that the icosahedral quasilattice is metastable with respect to the hard-sphere crystal structures. Our results agree with recent findings by McCarley and Ashcroft [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 49}, 15600 (1994)] carried out using the modified weighted density approximation.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9508007,
title = {Stability of the hard-sphere icosahedral quasilattice},
author = {H. M. Cataldo and C. F. Tejero},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9508007},
year = {2009}
}
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15 pages, 2 figures available from authors upon request, (revtex), submitted to Phys. Rev. B