Dynamics of the critical wetting transition
- 1 June 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 31 (11) , 7434-7435
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.31.7434
Abstract
The presence of long-range van der Waals forces in a system which undergoes a critical wetting transition gives rise to an unusually large relaxation time τ which scales as ‖T- , where is the wetting temperature.
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