A Structural Model for Octagonal Quasicrystals Derived from Octagonal Symmetry Elements Arising in $\beta$-Mn Crystallization of a Simple Monatomic Liquid

Måns Elenius, Fredrik H. M. Zetterling, Mikhail Dzugutov +2

While performing molecular dynamics simulations of a simple monatomic liquid, we observed the crystallization of a material displaying octagonal symmetry in its simulated diffracti…