On the reflectivity discontinuity generated by critical adsorption at the liquid-vapour interface

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 454, Issue 1970, 1998, Pages 659-669

  Geoghegan, M ^a,b   Jannink, G ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE LÉON BRILLOUIN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Critical adsorption; One dimensional; potential wells; Reflectivity; Schr dinger equation; Spectral properties; Time independent

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041033839     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1998.0179     Document Type: Article

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