Anisotropic Coarsening: Grain Shapes and Nonuniversal Persistence

Abstract
We solve a coarsening system with small but arbitrary anisotropic surface tension and interface mobility. The resulting size-dependent growth shapes are significantly different from equilibrium microcrystallites, and have a distribution of grain sizes different from isotropic theories. As an application of our results, we show that the persistence decay exponent depends on anisotropy and, hence, is nonuniversal.
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