Supplementary Information for “ Pathways to dewetting in hydrophobic confinement ” Richard

ergy To demonstrate the existence of kinks in ∆G(N ; d) more clearly, we plot smoothed derivatives of ∆G(N ; d) in Figure 2b of the main text. Directly computing derivatives of ∆G(N) using finite difference, for example, using ∂∆G/∂N = ∆G(N + 1) − ∆G(N), results in noisy estimates due to the numerical error in ∆G(N) (Figure S1). To minimize such effects, we first smooth ∆G(N) using a rectangular window function, such that