Virginia TechZia, Royce K. P.Wallace, D. J.2014-05-072014-05-071985-02Zia, R. K. P.; Wallace, D. J., "Effects of anisotropic surface tension on first-order-transition singularities," Phys. Rev. B 31, 1624 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.31.16240163-1829http://hdl.handle.net/10919/47833For systems displaying two-phase coexistence without rotational invariance, anisotropic surface tension and nonspherical droplets are present. To study small fluctuations around such droplets, we construct a natural coordinate system and find the quadratic form. In general, their spectrum differs from the isotropic case and affects the nature of the first-order transition singularities. However, in two bulk dimensions, the spectrum is sufficiently simple that the singularity is universal.en-USIn Copyrightphysics, condensed matterArticle - Refereedhttp://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.31.1624https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.31.1624