Nucleation and phase transition of spherical crystals and quasicrystals
We investigated the nucleation, growth, and solid-to-solid phase transition processes of spherical six-fold symmetric crystals (C6) and ten-fold symmetric quasicrystals (DQC) using the Lifshitz-Petrich model. By combining the spherical-harmonic pseudospectral method with a nullspace-preserving saddle-point search techn...