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The effect of elastic forces on interface delocalization transitions

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Elastic interaction prevents complete wetting and surface induced disordering and leads to a first order phase transition. The discontinuity is small for magnets and large for segregating binary alloys.

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Speth, W. The effect of elastic forces on interface delocalization transitions. Z. Physik B - Condensed Matter 61, 325–328 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01317799

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