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V Elser

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PubMed2000

Solving the crystallographic phase problem in i(AlPdMn).

We apply a new technique for ab initio phase determination [Acta Crystallogr. Sect. A 55, 48 (1999)] to solve for the average structure of the icosahedral ( i) phase of AlPdMn. After an introduction to the crystallographic phase problem and a description of the method, we present a brief report of our findings for the structure of i(AlPdMn). Despite the use of data from extremely high quality samples, we find strong evidence of disorder in the structure, lending support to the random tiling model of quasicrystal stabilization.

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PubMed1999

X-ray phase determination by the principle of minimum charge.

When the electron density in a crystal or a quasicrystal is reconstructed from its Fourier modes, the global minimum value of the density is sensitively dependent on the relative phases of the modes. The set of phases that maximizes the value of the global minimum corresponds, by positivity of the density, to the density having the minimum total charge that is consistent with the measured Fourier amplitudes. Phases that minimize the total electronic charge (i.e. the average electron density) have the additional property that the lowest minima of the electron density become exactly degenerate and proliferate within the unit cell. The large number of degenerate minima have the effect that density maxima are forced to occupy ever smaller regions of the unit cell. Thus, by minimization of the electronic charge, the atomicity of the electron density is enhanced as well. Charge minimization applied to simulated crystalline and quasicrystalline diffraction data successfully reproduces the correct phases starting from random initial phases.

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