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  "abstract": "Defect repair in quasicrystals involves local structural rearrangements on a complex potential energy landscape. Here, we combine the string method with the spring pair method to compute a minimum energy path connecting a locally defective finite dodecagonal quasicrystal cluster to a locally repaired reference configuration in the Lennard-Jones--Gauss particle model. The computed path contains seven local minima connected through six transition states. A detailed analysis of one defective region resolves three successive stages: a phason flip, aggregation of neighboring shield-like defects, and decomposition of the aggregated motif. The phason flip restores the local outer-ring structure and relocates a shield-like defect into the interior. Subsequent collective rearrangements remove the defective motifs and yield a net decrease in the local interaction-energy measure together with an increase in local bond-orientational order. These results provide a microscopic description of a specific defect-repair pathway on the potential energy surface of a finite dodecagonal quasicrystal cluster.",
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      "name": "Tiejun Zhou"
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    {
      "name": "Rong Liu"
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    {
      "name": "Gang Cui"
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    {
      "name": "Xianbo Huang"
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    {
      "name": "Li Peng"
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    {
      "name": "Kai Jiang"
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.13253",
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  "published": "2026-10-01",
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  "title": "Minimum energy paths for defect annihilation in finite dodecagonal quasicrystal clusters",
  "title_text": "Minimum energy paths for defect annihilation in finite dodecagonal quasicrystal clusters",
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  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/61xh8td4dmxzm",
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