Finite size effects on the phase diagram of a binary mixture confined between competing walls

Details Finite size effects on the phase diagram of a binary mixture confined between competing walls Finite size effects on the phase diagram of a binary mixture confined between competing walls

2000-05-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0005060v1

Physica A 279 (2000) 188

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00525-7

A symmetrical binary mixture AB that exhibits a critical temperature T_{cb} of phase separation into an A-rich and a B-rich phase in the bulk is considered in a geometry confined between two parallel plates a distance D apart. It is assumed that one wall preferentially attracts A while the other wall preferentially attracts B with the same strength (''competing walls''). In the limit $D\to \infty$, one then may have a wetting transition of first order at a temperature T_{w}, from which prewetting lines extend into the one phase region both of the A-rich and the B-rich phase. It is discussed how this phase diagram gets distorted due to the finiteness of D% : the phase transition at T_{cb} immediately disappears for D<\infty due to finite size rounding, and the phase diagram instead exhibit two two-phase coexistence regions in a temperature range T_{trip}

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