Significance of the bulk correlation length for wetting transitions
- 1 November 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 34 (9) , 6469-6480
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.34.6469
Abstract
Second-order and multicritical wetting transitions do not depend on the smooth variation of interfacial density profiles on the scale of the bulk correlation length. This independence is surprising, because on the other hand, wetting transitions turn out to be affected so delicately by the details of a specific system, that, for example, lattice-gas models fail to predict quantitatively the order of the transition in case it is first order or multicritical.Keywords
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