Giant Casimir effect in fluids in nonequilibrium steady states

In this Letter, we consider the fluctuation-induced force exerted between two plates separated by a distance L in a fluid with a temperature gradient. We predict that for a range of distances L, this nonequilibrium force is anomalously large compared to other Casimir forces. The physical reason is t...

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Autores: Kirkpatrick, T. R., Ortiz De Zárate Leira, José María, Sengers, J. V.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/33691
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33691
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:536
Fluctuation-induced forces
Asymptotic time behavior
Thermal-equilibrium
Rayleigh-scattering
Light-scattering
Liquid-mixtures
Equations
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Sumario:In this Letter, we consider the fluctuation-induced force exerted between two plates separated by a distance L in a fluid with a temperature gradient. We predict that for a range of distances L, this nonequilibrium force is anomalously large compared to other Casimir forces. The physical reason is that correlations in a nonequilibrium fluid are generally of longer range than other correlations, even than those near an equilibrium critical point. This giant Casimir force is related to a divergent Burnett coefficient that characterizes an Onsager cross effect between the pressure and the temperature gradient. The predicted Casimir force should be detectable with currently available experimental techniques.