Published April 20, 1989
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Journal article
A lower bound on the size of crystalline surfaces
Description
A Mermin-Wagner type argument is used to show that the mean square extent of random crystalline surfaces grows at least like the logarithm of the area. This result holds true for all sufficiently regular translationally invariant interactions of finite range. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters, (Section) B
- Journal Volume
- 221
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Series
- Phys. Lett., B.
- Journal Page Range
- 35-38
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 20049993
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACTION INTEGRAL; CRYSTAL LATTICES; FUNCTIONALS; INTERACTION RANGE; LATTICE FIELD THEORY; LIMITING VALUES; RANDOMNESS; SIZE; SURFACES
- Descriptors DEC
- CONSTRUCTIVE FIELD THEORY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISTANCE; FIELD THEORIES; INTEGRALS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY