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Nucleation from a metastable state is studied for an anisotropic Ising model at very low temperatures. It turns out that the critical nucleus as well as configurations on a typical path to it differ from the Wulff shape of an equilibrium droplet.
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Kotecký, R., Olivieri, E. Droplet dynamics for asymmetric Ising model. J Stat Phys 70, 1121–1148 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01049425
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