An exactly solvable model of the crystal-vacuum interface is constructed which exhibits a roughening transition. The model is obtained as a special limit of a ferromagnetic Ising model and it is isomorphic to the symmetric six-vertex model. Some of the thermodynamic properties of the system are discussed.
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Henk van Beijeren (1977) studied this question.
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