The estimation of phason flips in 1D quasicrystal from the diffraction pattern. Issue 3 (26th October 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Buganski, Ireneusz; Strzalka, Radoslaw; Wolny, Janusz
• Is Part Of: Physica status solidi. Volume 253:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 450
• Page End: 457
• Publication Date: 2015-10-26
• Subjects: average unit cell -- envelope function -- Fibonacci chains -- phasons -- quasicrystals -- X‐ray diffraction; Solid state physics -- Periodicals; Solids -- Periodicals; Atomic structure -- Periodicals; 530.41
• DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201552426
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0370-1972

Abstract

Abstract : The statistical approach based on the average unit‐cell concept and the envelop functions for the diffraction pattern were used to estimate the number of phason flips in the model 1D quasicrystal (Fibonacci chain). The characteristic function of a statistical distribution expanded to a power series with distribution moments as coefficients can be used to retrieve phases of diffraction peaks. In addition, the number of flips in the structure can be designated in two ways: with the value of the second moment's value and directly from the shape of a probability density function retrieved from the diffraction pattern. In this paper, all calculations are performed for a nondecorated Fibonacci chain.