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At the end of 1984, a group of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology reported a discovery of an alloy of aluminum and manganese whose electron diffraction pattern revealed a novel structure [1]. While the diffraction peaks were relatively sharp, indicating positional coherence on the order of several hundred angstroms, the pattern itself displayed a noncrystallographic, icosahedral orientational order. This discovery challenged a century-old belief that periodicity and structural order are essentially equivalent. This chapter will address the above challenge within the framework of the Landau theory of freezing [2] and from the point of view of bond-orientational order, but without a detailed introduction to quasicrystals. A more comprehensive introduction to quasicrystals can be obtained from a number of review articles [3–7], collection of reprints [8], and books [9–11].
To the memory of my mother, Mileva Jarić
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Jarić, M.V. (1992). Orientational Order and Quasicrystals. In: Strandburg, K.J. (eds) Bond-Orientational Order in Condensed Matter Systems. Partially Ordered Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2812-7_7
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