Helium crystals
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Contemporary Physics
- Vol. 28 (2) , 117-142
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00107518708223690
Abstract
Hexagonal close-packed helium crystals in equilibrium with superfluid have been found to be one of the few systems in which an anisotropic solid comes into true thermodynamic equilibrium with its melt. The discovety of roughening transitions at the liquid-solid interface have shown this system to be ideal for the study of the statistical mechanics of interface structures. We describe the effect of roughening on the shape and growth of macroscopic crystals from both the theoretical and experimental points of view.This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
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