S. Balibar et al., THE ROUGHENING TRANSITION AND THE GROWTH OF HELIUM CRYSTALS, Progress in crystal growth and characterization of materials, 26, 1993, pp. 51-66
We present a review on the roughening transition and the surface of he
lium crystals, whose behaviour is well described by the modem or ''cri
tical'' theory of roughening and whose study brings important informat
ion on the microscopic details of crystal growth processes.