A roughening transition indicated by the behaviour of ground states

Salvador Miracle-Sole (1) , Roman Kotecky (2)

1 CPT - Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332
2 Dept. of Mathematical Physics, Charles University, Praha

Our aim in this contribution is to present some illustrations for the claim that already by looking at the ground states of classical lattice models, one may meet some interesting and non-trivial structures.

Mots clés: equilibrium crystal; Roughening transition; Ising spin systems; BCC lattice; equilibrium crystal.

Domaines: Mécanique statistique [cond-mat.stat-mech]; Physique mathématique [math-ph]; Physique mathématique [math-ph]

Salvador Miracle-Sole, Roman Kotecky. A roughening transition indicated by the behaviour of ground states. VIIIth International Congress of the International Association of Mathematical Physics, 1986, Marseille, France. pp.331-337. ⟨hal-00706981⟩