Microscopic approach to critical phenomena at interfaces: An application to complete wetting in the Ising model

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 5 1, 2004, Pages

  Orlandi, A ^a,d   Parola, A ^b,d   Reatto, L ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia Milan   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; HAMILTONIANS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION;

ANISOTROPIC SPECTRUM; HIERARCHICAL REFERENCE THEORY (HRT); PLANAR GEOMETRY; RENORMALIZATION GROUP (RG);

WETTING;

EID: 41349101941     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.051611     Document Type: Article

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