Complete wetting of pits and grooves

Complete Wetting of Gluons and Gluinos *

Complete wetting is a universal phenomenon associated with interfaces separating coexisting phases. For example, in the pure gluon theory , at T c an interface separating two distinct high-temperature de-confined phases splits into two confined-deconfined interfaces with a complete wetting layer of confined phase between them. In supersym-metric Yang-Mills theory, distinct confined phases may c...

Complete wetting near an edge of a rectangular-shaped substrate.

We consider fluid adsorption near a rectangular edge of a solid substrate that interacts with the fluid atoms via long range (dispersion) forces. The curved geometry of the liquid-vapour interface dictates that the local height of the interface above the edge ℓ(E) must remain finite at any subcritical temperature, even when a macroscopically thick film is formed far from the edge. Using an inte...

Approach tq complete wetting in 4He-3He binary liquid mixtures

We reanalyse an experimental work, including some unpublished results, on the adsorption of 4He atoms on a substrate in a 4He-3He mixture. We verify with remarkable accuracy the powerlaw dependence of the 4He adsorption thickness as a function of the distance AT to coexistence : e = C1/ (0394T) 1/3, for thicknesses e ranging from 20 to 80 Å (5 to 20 atomic layers). The analysis is made possible...

Complete Wetting in the Three-Dimensional Transverse Ising Model

We consider a three-dimensional Ising model in a transverse magnetic field, h and a bulk field H. An interface is introduced by an appropriate choice of boundary conditions. At the point (H = 0, h = 0) spin configurations corresponding to different positions of the interface are degenerate. By studying the phase diagram near this multiphase point using quantum-mechanical perturbation theory we ...

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