A note on the kinetics of wetting transitions in two-dimensional lattice-gas systems

The authors present results of Monte Carlo simulations on the kinetics of wall-wall wetting transitions in the two-dimensional three-state chiral clock and anisotropic next-nearest-neighbour Ising models. They confirm the existence of an algebraic growth law for the width of the wetting layer (W(t)) approximately t1/4 in the limit of large systems and long enough times at non-zero temperatures. They also discuss finite-size and temperature dependence of the effective growth exponents in these two models.