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In a Monte Carlo simulation of a three-dimensional lattice-gas model of the adsorption of a liquid film on a substrate, we have observed the thick-film--thin-film (prewetting) transition, located the prewetting critical point, and determined its nature via finite-size scaling. We find this critical point to be two-dimensional Ising type, confirming the conjecture that surface phase transitions out of bulk coexistence should belong to this universality class.
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Nicolaides et al. (1989) studied this question.
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