Depinning and wetting transitions in one and two dimensions
- 1 September 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 28 (5) , 2555-2560
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.28.2555
Abstract
Possible phase transitions and the critical properties of liquid films on top of substrates are discussed. Our ideas seem to explain a disagreement with mean-field theory in a recent experiment by Kwon Connection with models studied in the context of instantons is pointed out.Keywords
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