Fluctuation induced forces in critical films with disorder at their surfaces. (17th November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Maciołek, A; Vasilyev, O; Dotsenko, V; Dietrich, S
• Is Part Of: Journal of statistical mechanics. (2017:Nov.)
• Publication Date: 2017-11-17
• Subjects: 5; Statistical mechanics -- Periodicals; Mechanics -- Statistical methods -- Periodicals; 530.1305
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/aa95f3
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-5468

Abstract

Abstract: We investigate the effect of quenched surface disorder on effective interactions between two planar surfaces immersed in fluids which are near criticality and belong to the Ising bulk universality class. We consider the case that, in the absence of random surface fields, the surfaces of the film belong to the surface universality class of the so-called ordinary transition. We find analytically that in the linear weak-coupling regime, i.e. upon including the mean-field contribution and Gaussian fluctuations, the presence of random surface fields with zero mean leads to an attractive, disorder-induced contribution to the critical Casimir interactions between the two confining surfaces. Our analytical, field-theoretic results are compared with corresponding Monte Carlo simulation data.