Published December 2, 1991
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Journal article
Fluctuation-induced forces between rough surfaces
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Description
External boundaries change the fluctuations of a correlated fluid, such as a liquid crystal, thereby causing long-range interactions. We compute how the interaction between two parallel plates is modified by the deformations of one plate. Corrections to the leading interaction decay with the average separation of the plates through an exponent related to the roughness of the boundary. These interactions may also modify the surface fluctuations of thin liquid films
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 67
- Journal Issue
- 23
- Series
- Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Journal Page Range
- 3275-3278
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 23020772
- Subject category
- S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
- Descriptors DEI
- BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CASIMIR EFFECT; CORRELATIONS; FLUCTUATIONS; FLUIDS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; ROUGHNESS; SUPERFLUIDITY
- Descriptors DEC
- CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VARIATIONS