Interfacial wetting in the 4-state Potts model: A cluster approach

Costas E. Paraskevaidis, Costas Papatriantafillou and Bela M. Mulder

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2007, vol. 375, issue 2, 537-545

Abstract: We formulate an inhomogeneous generalization of the bond-cluster approach to deal with interfacial phenomena in q-state Potts models. We apply this formalism to the wetting by the disordered phase of the interface between two bulk phases. For the case q=4 we obtain the full interfacial profiles, provide an estimate for the wetting temperature and verify the predicted logarithmic divergence of the wetting layer.

Keywords: Wetting; Potts model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.09.021

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