Casimir forces in binary liquid mixtures

Details Casimir forces in binary liquid mixtures Casimir forces in binary liquid mixtures

1997-03-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9703093v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

34 pages LaTeX with revtex and epsf style, to appear in Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.56.1642

If two ore more bodies are immersed in a critical fluid critical fluctuations of the order parameter generate long ranged forces between these bodies. Due to the underlying mechanism these forces are close analogues of the well known Casimir forces in electromagnetism. For the special case of a binary liquid mixture near its critical demixing transition confined to a simple parallel plate geometry it is shown that the corresponding critical Casimir forces can be of the same order of magnitude as the dispersion (van der Waals) forces between the plates. In wetting experiments or by direct measurements with an atomic force microscope the resulting modification of the usual dispersion forces in the critical regime should therefore be easily detectable. Analytical estimates for the Casimir amplitudes Delta in d=4-epsilon are compared with corresponding Monte-Carlo results in d=3 and their quantitative effect on the thickness of critical wetting layers and on force measurements is discussed.

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