Edge wetting of an Ising three-dimensional system

Details Edge wetting of an Ising three-dimensional system Edge wetting of an Ising three-dimensional system

2002-09-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0209140v1

PRE 66, 056117 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

11 Pages latex, 12 Figures PS

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.66.056117

The effect of edge on wetting and layering transitions of a three-dimensional spin-1/2 Ising model is investigated, in the presence of longitudinal and surface magnetic fields, using mean field (MF) theory and Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. For T=0, the ground state phase diagram shows that there exist only three allowed transitions, namely: surface and bulk transition, surface transition and bulk transition. However, there exist a surface intra-layering temperature $T_{L}^{s}$, above which the surface and the intra-layering surface transitions occur. While the bulk layering and intra-layering transitions appear above an other finite temperature $T_{L}^{b} (\ge T_{L}^{s})$. These surface and bulk intra-layering transitions are not seen in the perfect surfaces case. Numerical values of $T_{L}^{s}$ and $T_{L}^{b}$, computed by Monte Carlo method are found to be smaller than those obtained using mean field theory. However, the results predicted by the two methods become similar, and are exactly those given by the ground state phase diagram, for very low temperatures. On the other hand, the behavior of the local magnetizations as a function of the external magnetic field, shows that the transitions are of the first order type. $T_{L}^{s}$ and $T_{L}^{b}$ decrease when increasing the system size and/or the surface magnetic field. In particular, $T_{L}^{b}$ reaches the wetting temperature $T_{w}$ for sufficiently large system sizes.

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