Surface contribution to the low-temperature specific heat of a hexagonal crystal
- 15 September 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 14 (6), 2200-2210
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.14.2200
Abstract
We derive for the first time an exact analytic result for the surface contribution to the low-temperature specific heat of an anisotropic medium. The system we consider is a semi-infinite hexagonal crystal with a stress-free planar surface parallel to the basal plane.Keywords
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