It is proposed that surfaces of crystals which reconstruct with broken orientational symmetry and exhibit an anisotropic intrinsic stress tensor are unstable to the formation of elastic-stress domains. Thus the ground state of such a surface is not uniform, contrary to previous expectations. Evidence of this for the Si(001) surface is discussed.
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