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AUTHOR
S. Wansleben
Wetting transitions near the bulk critical point: Monte Carlo simulations for the Ising model
Critical, tricritical, and first-order wetting transitions are studied near the bulk critical point of a simple cubic nearest-neighbor Ising model by extensive Monte Carlo simulations. The model applies an exchange J in the bulk and exchange ${J}_{s}$ in the surface planes, where surface fields ${H}_{1}$ also act in addition to a possible bulk field H. Lattices in a thin-film geometry L\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}L\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}D are used, with two free L\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}L surfaces (with L up to 256) and film thickness D up to 160, applying a very fast fully vectorizing multispin coding program. Our results present the first quantitative evidence f…
Monte Carlo studies of anisotropic surface tension and interfacial roughening in the three-dimensional Ising model.
Extensive Monte Carlo simulations of the simple cubic Ising model with nearest-neighbor ferromagnetic interactions with a tilted interface are presented for a wide range of lattice size L, temperature T, and tilt angles \ensuremath{\theta}. The anisotropic interfacial tension is studied in detail. From the small-angle data, we obtain the step free energy density ${f}_{S}$(T,L). Finite-size scaling of the step free energy density is discussed and used to probe the predicted temperature dependence of the correlation length near and above the roughening transition. The square-root temperature dependence predicted by solid-on-solid model calculations is exhibited. Finite-size scaling implies th…