Icosahedral Ti-Zr-Ni: A groundstate quasicrystal?
Hennig, R. G. · Carlsson, A. E. · Kelton, K. F. · Henley, C. L.
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The first complete ab initio zero-temperature ternary phase diagram is constructed from the calculated energies of the elemental, binary and ternary Ti-Zr-Ni phases; for this, the icosahedral i-TiZrNi quasicrystal phase is approximated by periodic structures of up to 123 atoms/unit cell, based on a decorated-tiling model. The approximant structures containing the 45-atom Bergman cluster were nearly degenerate, and stable against the competing binary phases. It is speculated that i-TiZrNi may be a ground state quasicrystal, as it is experimentally the low-temperature phase for its composition.
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