English

Casimir force in the O(n -> infinity) model with free boundary conditions

Statistical Mechanics 2015-06-11 v4

Abstract

We present results for the temperature behavior of the Casimir force for a system with a film geometry with thickness LL subject to free boundary conditions and described by the nn\to\infty limit of the O(n)O(n) model. These results extend over all temperatures, including the critical regime near the bulk critical temperature TcT_c, where the critical fluctuations determine the behavior of the force, and temperatures well below it, where its behavior is dictated by the Goldstone's modes contributions. The temperature behavior when the absolute temperature, TT, is a finite distance below TcT_c, up to a logarithmic-in-LL proximity of the bulk critical temperature, is obtained both analytically and numerically; the critical behavior follows from numerics. The results resemble - but do not duplicate - the experimental curve behavior for the force obtained for 4^4He films.

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@article{arxiv.1210.1452,
  title  = {Casimir force in the O(n -> infinity) model with free boundary conditions},
  author = {Daniel Dantchev and Jonathan Bergknoff and Joseph Rudnick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.1452},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

16 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review E. Abstract and author order changed to reflect the manuscript as rewritten, and comments changed to reflect the current status of the manuscript. Now published