Anomalous corrections to the Kelvin equation at complete wetting

Details Anomalous corrections to the Kelvin equation at complete wetting Anomalous corrections to the Kelvin equation at complete wetting

1998-03-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9803193v2

Phys. Rev. B 58, 5070 (1998)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

9 pages, RevTeX, 7 PostScript figures included. Some misprints corrected. Final version as published

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.58.5070

We consider an Ising model confined in an $L \times \infty$ geometry with identical surface fields at the boundaries. According to the Kelvin equation the bulk coexistence field scales as 1/L for large L; thermodynamics and scaling arguments predict higher order corrections of the type $1/L^2$ and $1/L^{5/3}$ at partial and complete wetting respectively. Our numerical results, obtained by density-matrix renormalization techniques for systems of widths up to L = 144, are in agreement with a $1/L^2$ correction in the partial wet regime. However at complete wetting we find a large range of surface fields and temperatures with a correction to scaling of type $1/L^{4/3}$. We show that this term is generated by a {\it thin} wetting layer whose free energy is dominated by the contacts with the wall. For $L$ sufficiently large we expect a crossover to a $1/L^{5/3}$ correction as predicted by the theory for a {\it thick} wetting layer. This crossover is indeed found in a solid-on-solid model which provides a simplified description of the wetting layer and allows the study of much larger systems than those available in a density-matrix renormalization calculation.

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