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Cahoon A, Maruyama M, Wettlaufer JS. Growth-melt asymmetry in crystals and twelve-sided snowflakes. Phys Rev Lett. 2006;96(25):255502doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.255502.
Cahoon, A., Maruyama, M., & Wettlaufer, J. S. (2006). Growth-melt asymmetry in crystals and twelve-sided snowflakes. Physical review letters, 96(25), 255502. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.255502
Cahoon, A, et al. "Growth-melt asymmetry in crystals and twelve-sided snowflakes." Physical review letters vol. 96,25 (2006): 255502. doi: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.255502
Cahoon A, Maruyama M, Wettlaufer JS. Growth-melt asymmetry in crystals and twelve-sided snowflakes. Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Jun 30;96(25):255502. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.255502. Epub 2006 Jun 29. PMID: 16907318.
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Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Jun 30;96(25):255502. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.255502. Epub 2006 Jun 29.

Growth-melt asymmetry in crystals and twelve-sided snowflakes.

Physical review letters

A Cahoon, M Maruyama, J S Wettlaufer

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.

PMID: 16907318 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.255502

Abstract

It is in the lexicon of crystal growth that the shape of a growing crystal reflects the underlying microscopic architecture. Although it is known that in weakly nonequilibrium conditions the slowest growing orientations ultimately dominate the asymptotic shape, is the same true for melting? Here we observe and show theoretically that while the two-dimensional steady melt shapes of ice are bounded by six planes, these planes are not proper facets but instead are rotated 30 degrees from the prism planes of ice. Finally, the transient melting state exposes 12 apparent crystallographic planes thereby differing substantially from the transient growth state.

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