Wetting by critical layers
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 31 (7), 4701-4704
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.31.4701
Abstract
Interface depinning transitions such as wetting are described where the surface layer becomes critical as the interface unbinds from the wall. As a consequence, there are two different types of fluctuations, namely, capillary waves and critical fluctuations within the surface layer, which are shown to be governed by two different length scales.Keywords
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