Computing phase diagrams for a quasicrystal-forming patchy-particle system
arXiv:1302.2592 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.255503
Abstract
We introduce an approach to computing the free energy of quasicrystals, which we use to calculate phase diagrams for systems of two-dimensional patchy particles with five regularly arranged patches that have previously been shown to form dodecagonal quasicrystals. We find that the quasicrystal is a thermodynamically stable phase for a wide range of conditions and remains a robust feature of the system as the potential's parameters are varied. We also demonstrate that the quasicrystal is entropically stabilised over its crystalline approximants.
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