Abstract
We provide a rigorous microscopic derivation of the thermodynamic description of equilibrium crystal shapes in the presence of a substrate, first studied by Winterbottom. We consider finite range ferromagnetic Ising models with pair interactions in dimensions greater or equal to 3, and model the substrate by a finite-range boundary magnetic field acting on the spins close to the bottom wall of the box.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 93-131 |
| Number of pages | 39 |
| Journal | Journal of Statistical Physics |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2001 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Boundary Gibbs fields
- Equilibrium crystal shapes
- Ferromagnetic lattice models
- Winterbottom construction
- Wulff construction