Apparent First-Order Wetting and Anomalous Scaling in the Two-Dimensional Ising Model

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.116.046101MaRDI QIDQ2960691zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

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Publication date 17 February 2017

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8574

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Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20)

Abstract: The global phase diagram of wetting in the two-dimensional (2d) Ising model is obtained through exact calculation of the surface excess free energy. Besides a surface field for inducing wetting, a surface-coupling enhancement is included. The wetting transition is critical (second order) for any finite ratio of surface coupling J_s to bulk coupling J, and turns first order in the limit J_s/J to infinity. However, for J_s/J much larger than 1 the critical region is exponentially small and practically invisible to numerical studies. A distinct pre-asymptotic regime exists in which the transition displays first-order character. Surprisingly, in this regime the surface susceptibility and surface specific heat develop a divergence and show anomalous scaling with an exponent equal to 3/2.

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