The non-equilibrium behavior of pseudo-Casimir forces

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2009/08/L08001zbMATH Open1459.82216arXiv0903.0933MaRDI QIDQ3301092FDOQ3301092

Ajay Gopinathan, David S. Dean

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: While techniques to compute thermal fluctuation induced, or pseudo-Casimir, forces in equilibrium systems are well established, the same is not true for non-equilibrium cases. We present a general formalism that allows us to unambiguously compute non-equilibrium fluctuation induced forces by specifying the energy of interaction of the fluctuating fields with the boundaries. For a general class of classical fields with dissipative dynamics, we derive a very general relation between the Laplace transform of the time-dependent force and the static partition function for a related problem with a different Hamiltonian. In particular, we demonstrate the power of our approach by computing, for the first time, the explicit time dependence of the non-equilibrium pseudo-Casimir force induced between two parallel plates, upon a sudden change in the temperature of the system. We also show how our results can be used to determine the steady-state behavior of the non-equilibrium force in systems where the fluctuations are driven by colored noise.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0933

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic critical phenomena in statistical mechanics (82C27)

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