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The Summertop Construction: Crystals in a Corner

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Journal of Statistical Physics, 50 (3-4): 727--736 (February 1988)
DOI: 10.1007/bf01026498

Abstract

Equilibrium shapes of crystals in contact with more than one substrate, e.g., droplets at a corner or the edge of two planes, are described. This generalizes a construction due to Wulff and Winterbottom and, unlike them, allows non-convex equilibrium shapes. Since this construction may require a central inversion of the Wulff plot, it is dubbed "the summertop construction".

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