Spontaneous breaking of rotational symmetry in the presence of defects
Abstract: We prove a strong form of spontaneous breaking of rotational symmetry for a simple model of two-dimensional crystals with random defects in thermal equilibrium at low temperature. The defects consist of isolated missing atoms.
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