The stability of the 18-fold symmetry soft-matter quasicrystals

Following our previous work this article reports a study on the stability of the 18-fold symmetry soft-matter quasicrystals, in which the extended free energy is a basis for the analysis that is similar to the study of the 12-fold symmetry quasicrystals. Due to the differences in structure between these two kinds of quasicrystals, their stabilities present some different characters to each other. Because there were no any results of the stability of 18-fold symmetry soft-matter quasicrystals reported yet, perhaps the present work is the first probe on the topic.