Action at the distance
Statistical Mechanics
2014-05-22 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We present a system exhibiting giant proximity effects which parallel observations in superfluid helium (Perron et al, Nature Physics V. 6, 499 (2010)) and give a theoretical explanation of these phenomena based on the mesoscopic picture of phase coexistence in finite systems. Our theory is confirmed by MC simulation studies. Our work demonstrates that such action-at-a-distance can occur in classical systems involving simple or complex fluids, such as colloid-polymer mixtures, or ferromagnets.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1405.5367,
title = {Action at the distance},
author = {D. B. Abraham and A. Maciolek and O. Vasilyev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.5367},
year = {2014}
}