Spontaneous Formation of Stress Domains
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Alerhand, O. L.; Vanderbilt, David; Meade, Robert D.; Joannopoulos, J. D.
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Article
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1988
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The American Physical Society
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English
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It is proposed that surfaces of crystals which reconstruct with broken orientational symmetry and ex- hibit an anisotropic intrinsic stress tensor are unstable to the formation of elastic-stress domains. Thus the ground state of suck a surface is not uniform, contrary to previous expectations. Evide