Spontaneous breaking of rotational symmetry with arbitrary defects and a rigidity estimate

DOI10.1007/s10955-015-1234-9zbMath1323.82046arXiv1408.5375MaRDI QIDQ2516101

Simon Aumann

Publication date: 10 August 2015

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5375

zbMATH Keywords

spontaneous symmetry breaking; crystal; rigidity estimate; arbitrary defects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74B20: Nonlinear elasticity

82D25: Statistical mechanics of crystals

60K35: Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory

53C24: Rigidity results

82B21: Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics

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