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Colloidal Ordering on a 2D Quasicrystalline Substrate
2008
Physical Review Letters
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By using Monte Carlo simulations, we study the complex phase behavior of charged-stabilized colloidal particles in a two-dimensional substrate potential with quasicrystalline decagonal symmetry. In the regime where the strengths of the substrate and colloidal pair potential are comparable, we identify a novel and unexpected quasicrystalline phase with pure 20-fold bond order and a disordered structure without any apparent rotational symmetry. Furthermore, we demonstrate how phasonic
doi:10.1103/physrevlett.101.218302
pmid:19113456
fatcat:fo7dsvbk4zaohp7uvkzk2yxjle