Tetra Point Wetting at the Free Surface of Liquid Ga-Bi

Details Tetra Point Wetting at the Free Surface of Liquid Ga-Bi Tetra Point Wetting at the Free Surface of Liquid Ga-Bi

2002-05-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0205506v1

Physical Review Letters 89, 035502 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages (RevTeX 4), 3 eps figures, submitted to Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.035502

A continuous surface wetting transition, pinned to a solid/liquid/liquid/vapor tetra coexistence point, is studied by x-ray reflectivity in liquid Ga-Bi binary alloys. The short-range surface potential is determined from the measured temperature evolution of the wetting film. The thermal fluctuations are shown to be insufficient to induce a noticeable breakdown of mean-field behavior, expected in short-range-interacting systems due to their $d_u=3$ upper critical dimensionality.

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