Effective Hamiltonian for fluid membranes in the presence of long-ranged forces

Details Effective Hamiltonian for fluid membranes in the presence of long-ranged forces Effective Hamiltonian for fluid membranes in the presence of long-ranged forces

2008-05-08

arxiv.org/abs/0805.1146v1

Phys. Rev. E 78, 021602 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

12 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021602

If the constituent particles of fluid phases interact via long-ranged van der Waals forces, the effective Hamiltonian for \emph{interfaces} between such fluid phases contains - in lateral Fourier space - non-analytic terms $ \sim q^4 \ln q$. Similar non-analytic terms characterize the effective Hamiltonian for two interacting interfaces which can emerge between the three possible coexisting fluid phases in binary liquid mixtures. This is in contrast with the structure of the phenomenological Helfrich Hamiltonian for membranes which does not contain such non-analytic terms. We show that under favorable conditions for the bulk densities characterizing a binary liquid mixture and for the long-ranged interparticle interactions the corresponding effective Hamiltonian for a model fluid \emph{membrane} does not exhibit such non-analytic contributions. We discuss the properties of the resulting effective Hamiltonian, with a particular emphasis on the influence of the long range of the interactions on the coefficient of the bending rigidity.

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