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Proposed fitting function for the critical Casimir force on $^4$He film below the $\lambda$ point

Statistical Mechanics 2010-07-13 v1

Abstract

We have extended the mean field calculation of Zandi et al [1] and have obtained an approximate mathematical expression for the Casimir scaling function, which if extrapolated to the domain π2y0\pi^2\ge-y\ge 0, becomes surprisingly similar to that obtained experimentally by Ganshin et al [2]. The extrapolated scaling function can be regarded as a proposed fitting function, that appears to agree better with the experiments [2] in D=3, than the exact mean field result of Zandi et al [1].

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@article{arxiv.1007.1846,
  title  = {Proposed fitting function for the critical Casimir force on $^4$He film below the $\lambda$ point},
  author = {Shyamal Biswas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.1846},
  year   = {2010}
}

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A few printing mistakes in the published version have been corrected

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