A microscopic approach to critical phenomena at interfaces: an application to complete wetting in the Ising model

Details A microscopic approach to critical phenomena at interfaces: an application to complete wetting in the Ising model A microscopic approach to critical phenomena at interfaces: an application to complete wetting in the Ising model

2004-09-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0409188v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

To be published in Phy. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.70.051611

We study how the formalism of the Hierarchical Reference Theory (HRT) can be extended to inhomogeneous systems. HRT is a liquid state theory which implements the basic ideas of Wilson momentum shell renormalization group (RG) to microscopic Hamiltonians. In the case of homogeneous systems, HRT provides accurate results even in the critical region, where it reproduces scaling and non-classical critical exponents. We applied the HRT to study wetting critical phenomena in a planar geometry. Our formalism avoids the explicit definition of effective surface Hamiltonians but leads, close to the wetting transition, to the same renormalization group equation already studied by RG techiques. However, HRT also provides information on the non universal quantities because it does not require any preliminary coarse graining procedure. A simple approximation to the infinite HRT set of equations is discussed. The HRT evolution equation for the surface free energy is numerically integrated in a semi-infinite three-dimensional Ising model and the complete wetting phase transition is analyzed. A renormalization of the adsorption critical amplitude and of the wetting parameter is observed. Our results are compared to available Monte Carlo simulations.

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