Interfaces and wetting transition on the half plane. Exact results from field theory

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2013/05/P05010zbMATH Open1456.82332arXiv1303.1938OpenAlexW2146994926MaRDI QIDQ3301608FDOQ3301608

Authors: Alessio Squarcini, Gesualdo Delfino 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the scaling limit of a generic ferromagnetic system with a continuous phase transition, on the half plane with boundary conditions leading to the equilibrium of two different phases below criticality. We use general properties of low energy two-dimensional field theory to determine exact asymptotics of the magnetization profile perperdicularly to the boundary, to show the presence of an interface with endpoints pinned to the boundary, and to determine its passage probability. The midpoint average distance of the interface from the boundary grows as the square root of the distance between the endpoints, unless the reflection amplitude of the bulk excitations on the boundary possesses a stable bound state pole. The contact angle of the phenomenological wetting theory is exactly related to the location of this pole. Results available from the lattice solution of the Ising model are recovered as a particular case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1938

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B24) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

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