Abstract
Cracks are known to form easily along certain crystallographic directions, presumably because of weaker bonds or lower coordination numbers along those directions. We uncover the manner in which such weak bonds break as the temperature is raised, by evaluating the partition function of an anisotropic grid in two dimensions of atoms with nearest-neighbor bonds.
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