Interplay of complete wetting, critical adsorption, and capillary condensation

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2008-08-21

arxiv.org/abs/0808.2966v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

RevTeX 23 Pages and 17 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E

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The excess adsorption $\Gamma $ in two-dimensional Ising strips $(\infty \times L)$ subject to identical boundary fields, at both one-dimensional surfaces decaying in the orthogonal direction $j$ as $-h_1j^{-p}$, is studied for various values of $p$ and along various thermodynamic paths below the critical point by means of the density-matrix renormalization-group method. The crossover behavior between the complete wetting and critical adsorption regimes, occurring in semi-infinite systems, are strongly influenced by confinement effects. Along isotherms $T=const$ the asymptotic power law dependences on the external bulk field, which characterize these two regimes, are undercut by capillary condensation. Along the pseudo first-order phase coexistence line of the strips, which varies with temperature, we find a broad crossover regime where both the thickness of the wetting film and $\Gamma$ increase as function of the reduced temperature $\tau$ but do not follow any power law. Above the wetting temperature the order parameter profiles are not slab-like but exhibit wide interfacial variations and pronounced tails. Inter alia, our explicit calculations demonstrate that, contrary to opposite claims by Kroll and Lipowsky [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 28}, 5273 (1983)], for $p=2$ critical wetting transitions do exist and we determine the corresponding wetting phase diagram in the $(h_1,T)$ plane.

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