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Two-dimensional nonequilibrium growth of crystals (quasistable faceted and dendritic) in the presence of a phase separating impurity is studied by computer simulation. It is shown that there is a gradual modification in this system from quasistable faceted growth to the formation of dendrites when the impurity concentration increases. If there is dendritic growth in the presence of a phase-separating impurity, the cyclic changes in the morphology, expressed through the periodic occurrence of tertiary branches of a dendrite, are observed when the phase-separating impurity concentration is raised. This behavior of the morphology is considered as a reentrant nonequilibrium phase transition.
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Martiouchev, L.M., Seleznev, V.D. & Skopinov, S.A. Computer Simulation of Nonequilibrium Growth of Crystals in a Two-Dimensional Medium with a Phase-Separating Impurity. Journal of Statistical Physics 90, 1413–1427 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023295815199
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