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The influence of bulk disorder on wetting phenomena in two dimensional systems

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Wetting Phenomena

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Disorder may modify the critical behaviour of two-dimensional wetting and depinning transitions in various ways. It is shown that first order transitions may be driven second order, that critical exponents of continuous transitions may be changed, that reentrant wetting may appear, and that correlated disorder may drive a continuous transition first order.

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  1. Institut für Theoretische Physik A RWTH, Templergraben 55, 5100, Aachen, Western Germany

    Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen

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Nieuwenhuizen, T.M. (1990). The influence of bulk disorder on wetting phenomena in two dimensional systems. In: De Coninck, J., Dunlop, F. (eds) Wetting Phenomena. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 354. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-52338-3_11

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