Critical wetting of surfaces in systems with long-range forces
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 31 (7), 4718-4720
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.31.4718
Abstract
We solve the mean-field equations for a lattice gas in the presence of a substrate. All forces in the system are long ranged. We show that, for a suitable choice of potentials, critical wetting can occur and we observe it explicitly for the first time. This contrasts with all previous calculations and with claims in the literature that first-order wetting is generic.Keywords
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