Exactly Solvable Model for the Roughening Transition of a Crystal Surface
- 2 May 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 38 (18), 993-996
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.38.993
Abstract
An exactly solvable model of the crystal-vacuum interface is constructed which exhibits a roughening transition. The model is obtained as a special limit of a ferromagnetic Ising model and it is isomorphic to the symmetric six-vertex model. Some of the thermodynamic properties of the system are discussed.Keywords
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