Critical Casimir forces between defects in the 2D Ising model

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/48/485001zbMATH Open1355.82009arXiv1602.03791OpenAlexW2267750196MaRDI QIDQ3178740FDOQ3178740

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Publication date: 20 December 2016

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An exact statistical mechanical derivation is given of the critical Casimir interactions between two defects in a planar lattice-gas Ising model. Each defect is a group of nearest-neighbor spins with modified coupling constants. Such a system can be regarded as a model of a binary liquid mixture with the molecules confined to a membrane and the defects mimicking protein inclusions embedded into the membrane. As suggested by recent experiments, certain cellular membranes appear to be tuned to the proximity of a critical demixing point belonging to the two-dimensional Ising universality class. Therefore one can expect the emergence of critical Casimir forces between membrane inclusions. These forces are governed by universal scaling functions, which we derive for simple defects. We prove that the scaling law appearing at criticality is the same for all types of defects considered here.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03791

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zbMATH Keywords

critical phenomenaexactly solvable modellipid bilayers2D Ising modelcritical Casimir force

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

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