Stability of the hard-sphere icosahedral quasilattice
arXiv:cond-mat/9508007 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.52.13269
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.
arXiv comment15 pages, 2 figures available from authors upon request, (revtex), submitted to Phys. Rev. B