Identifying and Indexing Icosahedral Quasicrystals from Powder Diffraction Patterns
Abstract
We present a scheme to identify quasicrystals based on powder diffraction data and to provide a standardized indexing. We apply our scheme to a large catalog of powder diffraction patterns, including natural minerals, to look for new quasicrystals. Based on our tests, we have found promising candidates worthy of further exploration.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- December 2001
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.275507
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0108259
- Bibcode:
- 2001PhRvL..87A5507L
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 1 figure