Theory of the Structure Factor of Metallic Glasses
- 12 November 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 53 (20), 1947-1950
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.53.1947
Abstract
A recently developed Landau description of short-range icosahedral order in supercooled liquids and metallic glasses is used to calculate density correlation functions in these systems. The theory predicts frustration-broadened peaks in the structure factor, at positions determined by the symmetries of an ideal, curved-space icosahedral crystal. The results provide a good fit to experiments on vapor-deposited metal films.Keywords
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