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Universal phase boundary shifts for corner wetting and filling

A. O. Parry, A. J. Wood, E. Carlon, A. Drzewiński

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0110653

Abstract

The phase boundaries for corner wetting (filling) in square and diagonal lattice Ising models are exactly determined and show a universal shift relative to wetting near the bulk criticality. More generally, scaling theory predicts that the filling phase boundary shift for wedges and cones is determined by a universal scaling function Rd(ψ) depending only on the opening angle 2ψ. Rd(ψ) is determined exactly in d=2 and approximately in higher dimensions using non-classical local functional and mean-field theory. Detailed numerical transfer matrix studies of the the magnetisation profile in finite-size Ising squares support the conjectured connection between filling and the strong-fluctuation regime of wetting.

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