Surface phase diagrams for wetting with long-ranged forces
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Parry, Andrew
Malijevsky, Alexandr
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Recent Density Functional Theory and simulation studies of wetting and drying transitions in systems with long-ranged, dispersion-like forces, away from the near vicinity of the bulk critical temperature Tc, have questioned the generality of the global surface phase diagrams for wetting, due to Nakanishi and Fisher, pertinent to systems with short-ranged forces. We extend these studies deriving fully analytic results which determine the surface phase diagrams over the whole temperature range up to Tc. The phase boundaries, order of, and asymmetry between, the lines of wetting and drying transitions are determined exactly showing that they always converge to an ordinary surface critical point. We highlight the importance of lines of maximally multicritical wetting and drying transitions, for which we determine the exact critical singularities.
Date Issued
2023-09-29
Date Acceptance
2023-09-07
Citation
Physical Review Letters, 2023, 131 (13)
ISSN
0031-9007
Publisher
American Physical Society
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume
131
Issue
13
Copyright Statement
© 2023 American Physical Society. Andrew O. Parry and Alexandr Malijevský, Surface Phase Diagrams for Wetting with Long-Ranged Forces, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 136201, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.136201
Identifier
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.136201
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
136201
Date Publish Online
2023-09-28