2010/11/08 by Vesselin Tonchev, Bogdan Ranguelov, Tonchev, Vesselin +3 · 1 citation
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO) #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #nlin.AO
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1011.1863
6 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2010/11/08 · openalex publication_date 2010/11/08 · arxiv updated 2010/11/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Long-ranged step-step attractions destabilize the vicinal crystal surfaces. Their competition with shorter-ranged step-step repulsions results in self-organized patterns. The exponent in the time-scaling of their characteristic size is influenced only by the range of the attractions but not by the range of the repulsions as we show based on precise numerical analysis of two different minimal models. Another anisotropy we identify is that the vicinal surface is not destabilized by shorter-ranged attractions.