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Polytetrahedral Clusters

Jonathan Doye, David Wales

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0012333

Abstract

By studying the structures of clusters bound by a model potential that favours polytetrahedral order, we find a previously unknown series of `magic numbers' (i.e. sizes of special stability) whose polytetrahedral structures are characterized by disclination networks that are analogous to hydrocarbons.

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