Articulo
Corner wetting in a far-from-equilibrium magnetic growth model
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issn:1434-6028
issn:1434-6036
Autor
Manías, María Virginia
Candia, Julián Marcelo
Albano, Ezequiel Vicente
Institución
Resumen
The irreversible growth of magnetic films is studied in three-dimensional confined geometries of size L×L×M, where M≫L is the growing direction. Competing surface magnetic fields, applied to opposite corners of the growing system; lead to the observation of a localization-delocalization (weakly rounded) transition of the interface between domains of up and down spins on the planes transverse to the growing direction. This effective transition is the precursor of a true; far-from-equilibrium corner wetting transition that takes place in the thermodynamic limit. The phenomenon is characterized quantitatively by drawing a magnetic field-temperature phase diagram; firstly for a confined sample of finite size, and then by extrapolating; results, obtained with samples of different size, to the thermodynamic limit. The results of this work are a nonequilibrium realization of analogous phenomena recently investigated in equilibrium systems, such as corner wetting transitions in the Ising model. Instituto de Física La Plata Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas