Abstract
Three-dimensional bond orientational order is studied via computer simulations of 864 particles interacting through a Lennard-Jones pair potential. Long-range orientational fluctuations appear upon supercooling about ten percent below the equilibrium melting temperature. The fluctuations suggest a broken icosahedral symmetry with extended correlations in the orientations of local icosahedral packing units.
- Received 24 August 1981
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.47.1297
©1981 American Physical Society
