3D wedge filling and 2D random-bond wetting

Details 3D wedge filling and 2D random-bond wetting 3D wedge filling and 2D random-bond wetting

2005-10-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0510516v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

7 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Europhysics Letters

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2005-10334-5

Fluids adsorbed in 3D wedges are shown to exhibit two types of continuous interfacial unbinding corresponding to critical and tricritical filling respectively. Analytic solution of an effective interfacial model based on the transfer-matrix formalism allows us to obtain the asymptotic probability distribution functions for the interfacial height when criticality and tricriticality are approached. Generalised random walk arguments show that, for systems with short-ranged forces, the critical singularities at these transitions are related to 2D complete and critical wetting with random bond disorder respectively.

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