Absence of Critical Wetting in Systems with Long-Range Forces
- 3 October 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 51 (14), 1275-1278
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.51.1275
Abstract
Study of a solid-on-solid model within the Migdal approximation leads the authors to conclude that the phenomenon of critical wetting cannot occur in the presence of long-range, van der Waals forces.Keywords
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