Wulff droplets and the metastable relaxation of kinetic Ising models

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 389-462

  Schonmann, Roberto H ^a   Shlosman, Senya B ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0032098595     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002200050363     Document Type: Article

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