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Discussion Session

Clusters, phason elasticity and entropic stabilization: a theoretical perspective

Pages 1123-1129 | Received 13 Jun 2005, Accepted 19 Aug 2005, Published online: 19 Aug 2006
 

Abstract

Personal comments are made about the title subjects, including: the relation of Friedel oscillations of Hume–Rothery stabilization; how calculations may resolve the random-tiling versus ideal pictures of quasicrystals; and the role of entropics apart from tile-configurational.

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to Marc de Boissieu, Veit Elser, Marek Mihalkovič, Walter Steurer and Mike Widom for conversations and communications. This work was supported by the US Department of Energy grant DE-FG02-89ER-45405.

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