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Surfaces and roughening

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Some recent results in the application of statistical mechanics to surfaces are discussed. Only exactly soluable models are described. First, we consider phase separation below the critical temperature in uniaxial ferromagnets and their analogs. We then consider the determination of the equilibrium shape of a crystal having fixed volume, given the orientation-dependent surface tension, using the Wulff construction.

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Abraham, D.B. Surfaces and roughening. J Stat Phys 34, 793–801 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01009441

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