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A model metal potential exhibiting polytetrahedral clusters

Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v1 Atomic and Molecular Clusters

Abstract

Putative global minima have been located for clusters interacting with an aluminium glue potential for N<190. Virtually all the clusters have polytetrahedral structures, which for larger sizes involve an ordered array of disclinations that are similar to those in the Z, H and sigma Frank-Kasper phases. Comparisons of sequences of larger clusters suggest that the majority of the global minima will adopt the bulk face-centred-cubic structure beyond N=500.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0301374,
  title  = {A model metal potential exhibiting polytetrahedral clusters},
  author = {Jonathan P. K. Doye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0301374},
  year   = {2007}
}

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14 pages, 7 figures

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