Critical phenomena at interfaces

S. Dietrich

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1990, vol. 168, issue 1, 160-171

Abstract: The interface between two phases may exhibit significant structural changes if one of them comes close to a phase transition in its bulk. Irrespective of the order of the bulk transition these structural changes of the interfaces manifest as critical phenomena of their own linking the space dimensions two and three. The grazing incidence of X-rays and neutrons is particularly well suited to probe such surface critical phenomena and wetting phenomena.

Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(90)90367-2

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