Transient Casimir Forces from Quenches in Thermal and Active Matter

We compute fluctuation-induced (Casimir) forces for classical systems after a temperature quench. Using a generic coarse-grained model for fluctuations of a conserved density, we find that transient forces arise even if the initial and final states are force free. In setups reminiscent of Casimir (p...

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Main Authors: Rohwer, Christian M. (Author), Krüger, Matthias (Author), Kardar, Mehran (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2017-05-18T19:03:22Z.
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