{
  "id": "cond-mat/9912188",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1999-12-10T20:43:55.000Z",
  "updated": "1999-12-10T20:43:55.000Z",
  "title": "Slow dynamics of stepped surfaces",
  "authors": [
    "Anna Chame",
    "Sylvie Rousset",
    "Hans P. Bonzel",
    "Jacques Villain"
  ],
  "comment": "21 pages, 11 BMP figures",
  "journal": "Bulgarian Chemical Communications, vol.29 (3/4), 398 (1997)",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "cond-mat.mtrl-sci"
  ],
  "abstract": "Two kinds of configurations involving steps on surfaces are reviewed. The first one results from an initially planar vicinal surface, i.e. slightly deviating from a high-symmetry (001) or (111) orientation. In some cases, these surfaces separate into domains of different orientations by a mechanism which is very similar to phase separation in mixtures. The domain size initially increases with time and goes to a finite limit, whose value is related to elastic phenomena. The second kind of configurations results from making grooves in a high-symmetry surface. The surface smoothes out and takes an intermediate shape with facet-like hills and valleys, which are the source of a controversy which we try to clarify as much as possible.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1999-12-10T20:43:55.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "slow dynamics",
      "stepped surfaces",
      "initially planar vicinal surface",
      "surface smoothes",
      "high-symmetry surface"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 21,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "1999cond.mat.12188C"
    }
  }
}