Abstract
In molecular dynamics simulations of the structures and dynamic properties of liquid clusters containing a few hundred molecules, it has been found that the microdrops are often markedly deformed from spherical shapes. It is shown that the deformations can be accounted for by capillary waves, a treatment of which is developed in the paper. As well as describing shapes of microdrops, the results imply that shapes of critical nuclei in phase transitions can be expected to be highly irregular instead of the idealized spheres they are usually assumed to be in nucleation theory.
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