Complete wetting of gluons and gluinos

Complete wetting is a universnl phenomenon associated with interfaces separ ating coexisting phases. For example, in the pure gluon theory, at T-c an i nterface separating two distinct high-temperature deconfined phases splits into two confined-deconfined interfaces with a complete wetting layer of co nfined phase between them. In supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, distinct co nfined phases may coexist with a Coulomb phase at zero temperature. In that ease, the Coulomb phase may completely wet a confined-confined interface. Finally, at the high-temperature phase transition of gluons and gluinos, co nfined-confined interfaces are completely wet by the deconfined phase, and similarly, deconfined-deconfined interfaces are completely wet by the confi ned phase. For these various cases, we determine the interface profiles and the corresponding complete wetting critical exponents. The exponents depen d on the range of the interface interactions and agree with those of corres ponding condensed matter systems. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.