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Published on: June 15, 2012
Wetting and emergence of long-range couplings in arrays of fluid cells
D B Abraham1, A Maciołek2,3, A Squarcini4
1Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, <a href="https://ror.org/052gg0110">University of Oxford</a>, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kindgom.
Abstract:
Critical wetting is of crucial importance for the phase behavior of a simple fluid or Ising magnet confined between walls that exert opposing surface fields so that one wall favors liquid (spin up), while the other favors gas (spin down). We show that arrays of boxes filled with fluid and linked by channels with appropriately chosen opposing walls can exhibit long-range cooperative effects on a length scale far exceeding the bulk correlation length. We give the theoretical foundations of these long-range couplings by using a lattice gas (Ising model) description of a system.
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