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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics Année : 2011

Forces exerted by a correlated fluid on embedded inclusions

Anne-Florence Bitbol
Jean-Baptiste Fournier

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We investigate the forces exerted on embedded inclusions by a fluid medium with long-range correlations, described by an effective scalar field theory. Such forces are the basis for the medium-mediated Casimir-like force. To study these forces beyond thermal average, it is necessary to define them in each microstate of the medium. Two different definitions of these forces are currently used in the literature. We study the assumptions underlying them. We show that only the definition that uses the stress tensor of the medium gives the sought-after force exerted by the medium on an embedded inclusion. If a second inclusion is embedded in the medium, the thermal average of this force gives the usual Casimir-like force between the two inclusions. The other definition can be used in the different physical case of an object that interacts with the medium without being embedded in it. We show in a simple example that the two definitions yield different results for the variance of the Casimir-like force.
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hal-00599191 , version 1 (08-06-2011)

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Anne-Florence Bitbol, Jean-Baptiste Fournier. Forces exerted by a correlated fluid on embedded inclusions. Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2011, 83 (6), pp.061107. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.83.061107⟩. ⟨hal-00599191⟩
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