ON THE STIFFNESS OF AN INTERFACE NEAR A WALL

被引:39
作者
FISHER, ME [1 ]
JIN, AJ [1 ]
PARRY, AO [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV LONDON IMPERIAL COLL SCI TECHNOL & MED,DEPT MATH,LONDON SW7 2BZ,ENGLAND
来源
BERICHTE DER BUNSEN-GESELLSCHAFT-PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS | 1994年 / 98卷 / 03期
关键词
CRITICAL PHENOMENA; INTERFACES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; SURFACES; WETTING;
D O I
10.1002/bbpc.19940980314
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号
070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The relevance of the bare stiffness, SIGMA(l), of an interface at distance l from a planar wall, for the renormalization-group theory of critical-wetting instabilities in short-range, (d = 3)-dimensional systems is briefly recalled. A careful derivation is presented of an expression for SIGMA(l) at the van der Waals/mean field level in terms of the order-parameter profile m(PI) (z, l) of a planar interface. The analysis completes and improves the treatment of Jin and Fisher [Phys. Rev. B 47, 7365 (1993)].
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页码:357 / 361
页数:5
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