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Self-Diffusion in Random-Tiling Quasicrystals
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Self-Diffusion in Random-Tiling Quasicrystals

Abstract

The first explicit realization of the conjecture that phason dynamics leads to self-diffusion in quasicrystals is presented for the icosahedral Ammann tilings. On short time scales, the transport is found to be subdiffusive with the exponent $\beta\approx0.57(1)$, while on long time scales it is consistent with normal diffusion that is up to an order of magnitude larger than in the typical room temperature vacancy-assisted self-diffusion. No simple finite-size scaling is found, suggesting anomalous corrections to normal diffusion, or existence of at least two independent length scales.

Authors

Jaric MV; Sorensen ES

Publication date

August 17, 1994

DOI

10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9408048

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arXiv
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