Coupled Fluctuations near Critical Wetting
Abstract
Recent work on the complete wetting transition has emphasized the role played by the coupling of fluctuations of the order parameter at the wall and at the depinning fluid interface. Extending this approach to the wetting transition itself we predict a novel crossover effect associated with the decoupling of fluctuations as the temperature is lowered towards the transition temperature TW. Using this we are able to reanalyse recent Monte-Carlo simulation studies and extract a value ω(TW)=0.8 at TW=0.9TC in very good agreement with long standing theoretical predictions.
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