Fluid adsorption near an apex: Covariance between complete and critical wetting

Details Fluid adsorption near an apex: Covariance between complete and critical wetting Fluid adsorption near an apex: Covariance between complete and critical wetting

2002-12-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0212324v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.046101

Critical wetting is an elusive phenomenon for solid-fluid interfaces. Using interfacial models we show that the diverging length scales, which characterize complete wetting at an apex, precisely mimic critical wetting with the apex angle behaving as the contact angle. Transfer matrix, renormalization group (RG) and mean field analysis (MF) shows this covariance is obeyed in 2D, 3D and for long and short ranged forces. This connection should be experimentally accesible and provides a means of checking theoretical predictions for critical wetting.

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