English

Critical adsorption near edges

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

Symmetry breaking surface fields give rise to nontrivial and long-ranged order parameter profiles for critical systems such as fluids, alloys or magnets confined to wedges. We discuss the properties of the corresponding universal scaling functions of the order parameter profile and the two-point correlation function and determine the critical exponents eta_parallel and eta_perpendicular for the so-called normal transition.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9908155,
  title  = {Critical adsorption near edges},
  author = {A. Hanke and M. Krech and F. Schlesener and S. Dietrich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9908155},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

22 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PRE

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