Equilibrium roughening transition in a 1D modified sine-Gordon model

Details Equilibrium roughening transition in a 1D modified sine-Gordon model Equilibrium roughening transition in a 1D modified sine-Gordon model

2004-06-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0406254v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

11 pages, 13 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.70.061607

We present a modified version of the one-dimensional sine-Gordon that exhibits a thermodynamic, roughening phase transition, in analogy with the 2D usual sine-Gordon model. The model is suited to study the crystalline growth over an impenetrable substrate and to describe the wetting transition of a liquid that forms layers. We use the transfer integral technique to write down the pseudo-Schr\"odinger equation for the model, which allows to obtain some analytical insight, and to compute numerically the free energy from the exact transfer operator. We compare the results with Monte Carlo simulations of the model, finding a perfect agreement between both procedures. We thus establish that the model shows a phase transition between a low temperature flat phase and a high temperature rough one. The fact that the model is one dimensional and that it has a true phase transition makes it an ideal framework for further studies of roughening phase transitions.

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