Wulff shapes and the critical nucleus for a triangular Ising lattice

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2001-02
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American Physical Society
Abstract

Equilibrium Wulff shapes and interfacial energies of two-dimensional "crystals" on a triangular lattice are considered. Asymptotic approximations are constructed for both the shapes and energies in the limit T-->0 where crystals are close to perfect hexagons, and the limit T-T-c. (critical temperature) where crystals have near-circular shapes. The intermediate temperature region is studied numerically, and accurate interpolating approximations are proposed. The relevance of the study to the nucleation problem is discussed.

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equilibrium shapes, surface-tension, transfer-matrix, system, metastability, crystal, model, nucleation, dynamics, growth, physics, condensed matter
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Shneidman, V. A.; Zia, R. K. P., "Wulff shapes and the critical nucleus for a triangular Ising lattice," Phys. Rev. B 63, 085410 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.63.085410