Reversing the critical Casimir force by shape deformation

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.02.038MaRDI QIDQ304301zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giuseppe Bimonte, Thorsten Emig, Mehran Kardar

Publication date 25 August 2016

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0962

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

Abstract: The exact critical Casimir force between periodically deformed boundaries of a 2D semi-infinite strip is obtained for conformally invariant classical systems. Only two parameters (conformal charge and scaling dimension of a boundary changing operator), along withthe solution of an electrostatic problem, determine the Casimir force, rendering the theory practically applicable to any shape and arrangement. The attraction between any two mirror symmetric objects follows directly from our general result. The possibility of purely shape induced reversal of the force, as well as occurrence of stable equilibrium points, is demonstrated for certain conformally invariant models, including the tricritical Ising model.

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