Wulff shape of equilibrium crystals
Statistical Mechanics
2013-07-22 v1
Abstract
The shape of an equilibrium crystal is obtained, according to the Gibbs thermodynamic principle, by minimizing the total surface free energy associated to the crystal-medium interface. To study the solution to this problem, known as the Wulff construction, is the object of the article.
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@article{arxiv.1307.5180,
title = {Wulff shape of equilibrium crystals},
author = {Salvador Miracle-Sole},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.5180},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
15 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1206.4041, arXiv:1206.4230, arXiv:1206.3736