Field-driven crossover from attractive-to-repulsive Casimir-like force in smectic films

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 5 1, 2004, Pages

  De Oliveira, I N ^a   Lyra, M L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; HAMILTONIANS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUID MEMBRANES; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; WETTING;

CASIMIR FORCES; CORRELATED FLUIDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC VACUUM FIELD; FLUCTUATION MODES;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 41349110383     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.050702     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. H. B. G. Casimir, Proc. K. Ned. Akad. Wet. 51, 793 (1948).
2. L. V. Mikheev, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 96, 632 (1989) [Sov. Phys. JETP 69, 358 (1989)].
3. L. V. Mikheev, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 96, 632 (1989) [Sov. Phys. JETP 69, 358 (1989)].
4. A. Ajdari, L. Peliti, and J. Prost, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1481 (1991).
5. H. Li and M. Kardar, Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 3275 (1991).
6. P. Ziherl, R. Podgornik, and S. Zumer, Chem. Phys. Lett. 295, 99 (1998).
7. I. N. de Oliveira and M. L. Lyra, Phys. Rev. E 65, 051711 (2002).
8. P. G. De Gennes and J. Prost, The Physics of Liquid Crystals (Clarendon, Oxford, 1993).
9. S. Chandrasekhar, Liquid Crystals (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1977).
10. A. Ajdari, B. Duplantier, D. Hone, L. Peliti, and J. Prost, J. Phys. II 2, 487 (1992).
11. B. Markun and S. Zumer, Phys. Rev. E 68, 021704 (2003).
12. M. L. Lyra, M. Kardar, and N. F. Svaiter, Phys. Rev. E 47, 3456 (1993).
13. H. Li and M. Kardar, Phys. Rev. A 46, 6490 (1992).
14. P. Ziherl, F. Karimi Pour Haddadan, R. Podgomik, and S. Zumer, Phys. Rev. E 61, 5361 (2000).
15. L. V. Mirantsev, Phys. Rev. E 55, 4816 (1997).
16. A. Primak, M. Fisch, and S. Kumar, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 035701 (2002).
17. R. Mukhopadhyay, A. Yethiraj, and J. Bechhoefer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4796 (1999).
18. A. Yethiraj, R. Mukhopadhyay, and J. Bechhoefer, Phys. Rev. E 65, 021702 (2002).
19. I. N. de Oliveira and M. L. Lyra, Eur. Phys. J. B 32, 189 (2003).
20. G. Andersson, I. Dahl, L. Komitov, S. T. Lagerwall, K. Skarp, and B. Stebler, J. Appl. Phys. 66, 4983 (1989).
21. L. Sirleto, G. Coppola, G. Breglio, G. Abbate, G. C. Righini, and J. M. Oton, Opt. Eng. 41, 2890 (2002).
22. C. Rosenblatt and N. M. Amer, Appl. Phys. Lett. 36, 432 (1980).
23. S. Heinekamp, R. A. Pelcovits, E. Fontes, E. Y. Chen, R. Pindak, and R. B. Meyer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 1017 (1984).
24. C. Bahr, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 8, 3051 (1994).
25. M. L. Lyra, Phys. Rev. B 47, 2501 (1993).
26. T. Stoebe, P. Mach, and C. C. Huang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 1384 (1994).
27. Y. Martínez-Ratón, A. M. Somoza, L. Mederos, and D. E. Sullivan, Phys. Rev. E 55, 2030 (1997).
28. J. Collett, L. B. Sorensen, P. S. Pershan, and J. Als-Nielsen, Phys. Rev. A 32, 1036 (1985).
29. R. Holyst, D. J. Tweet, and L. B. Sorensen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 2153 (1990); R. Holyst, Phys. Rev. A 44, 3692 (1991).
30. R. Holyst, D. J. Tweet, and L. B. Sorensen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 2153 (1990); R. Holyst, Phys. Rev. A 44, 3692 (1991).
31. L. V. Mirantsev, Phys. Rev. E 62, 647 (2000).
32. L. V. Mirantsev, Phys. Rev. E 69, 011701 (2004).
33. I. N. de Oliveira and M. L. Lyra, Physica A 344, 595 (2004).
34. I. Lelidis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1267 (2001).
35. I. Lelidis, Liq. Cryst. 25, 531 (1998).