A note on wetting transition for gradient fields.

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Abstract: We prove existence of a wetting transition for two types of gradient fields: 1) Continuous SOS models in any dimension and 2) Massless Gaussian model in two dimensions. Combined with a recent result showing the absence of such a transition for Gaussian models above two dimensions by Bolthausen et al, this shows in particular that absolute-value and quadratic interactions can give rise to completely different behaviors.


The wetting transition for the gradient field \(\{\Phi _x\in \mathbb R^+; x\in \mathbb Z^d\}\), modelling the heights of an interface in the presence of a wall at height zero, for two kinds of models is investigated. The first case of the SOS model is based on the interaction \(\sum _{\langle x,y\rangle}| \Phi _x-\Phi _y| \) with boundary condition \(\sum | \Phi _x| \) and pinning potential \(-b\sum 1_{\{\Phi _x\leq a\}}\). In the other (Gaussian) case, the absolute value is replaced by power two. The wetting is described by means of the average ratio of the number \(\rho (a,b)\) of ``pinned sites (\(x\)'s with \(\Phi _x\leq a\)). It is shown that the SOS model exhibits the wetting phenomena for all \(d\geq 1\), whence the presence of the wetting just for \(d=2\) is shown for the Gaussian model. Together with the recent result of \textit{E. Bolthausen, J. D. Deuschel} and \textit{O. Zeitouni} [J. Math. Phys. 41, 1211--1223 (2000; Zbl 0977.82019)] that the wetting is absent for \(d\geq 3\) in the Gaussian case. The proofs here are based on a method of \textit{J. T. Chalker} [J. Phys. A, Math. Gen. 15, L481--L485 (1982)].




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