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Growth modes of quasicrystals

C V Achim1, M Schmiedeberg1, H Löwen1

  • 1Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, D-40204 Düsseldorf, Germany.

Physical Review Letters
|July 12, 2014
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