Casimir and pseudo-Casimir interactions in confined polyelectrolytes

Details Casimir and pseudo-Casimir interactions in confined polyelectrolytes Casimir and pseudo-Casimir interactions in confined polyelectrolytes

2001-01-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0101420v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

18 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1383052

We investigate the pseudo-Casimir force acting between two charged surfaces confining a single polyelectrolyte chain with opposite charge. We expand the exact free energy to the second order in the local electrostatic field as well as the replicated polymer density field around the mean-field (saddle-point) solution. The quadratic terms lead to a fluctuation interaction that is partly due to the (thermal) Casimir effect for the confined electrostatic field and partly due to the pseudo-Casimir effect due to the confined replicated polymer density field. We study the intersurface separation dependence of both effects and show that the pseudo-Casimir effect leads to a long range attraction between the surfaces that decays with an anomalous algebraic exponent of $\sim 1.7$, smaller than the standard exponent of 2 in the case of Casimir interactions.

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