Casimir Torques between Anisotropic Boundaries in Nematic Liquid Crystals

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2001-02-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0102099v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.64.022701

Fluctuation-induced interactions between anisotropic objects immersed in a nematic liquid crystal are shown to depend on the relative orientation of these objects. The resulting long-range ``Casimir'' torques are explicitely calculated for a simple geometry where elastic effects are absent. Our study generalizes previous discussions restricted to the case of isotropic walls, and leads to new proposals for experimental tests of Casimir forces and torques in nematics.

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