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It is shown that a quartic orientational free energy leads to long-range icosahedral bond-orientational order which, through a coupling with a translational order parameter, stabilizes the icosahedral quasicrystalline phase. The bond-orientational order selects the wave vectors which point into vertices or faces of an icosahedron.
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Marko V. Jarić (1985) studied this question.
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