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Critical Casimir levitation of colloids above a bull's-eye pattern
Piotr Nowakowski, Nima Farahmand Bafi, Giovanni Volpe +2
Critical Casimir forces emerge among particles or surfaces immersed in a near-critical fluid, with the sign of the force determined by surface properties and with its strength tuna…
Nanoalignment by Critical Casimir Torques
Gan Wang, Piotr Nowakowski, Nima Farahmand Bafi +7
The manipulation of microscopic objects requires precise and controllable forces and torques. Recent advances have led to the use of critical Casimir forces as a powerful tool, whi…
Critical Casimir forces in soft matter
Andrea Gambassi, S. Dietrich
We review recent advances in the theoretical, numerical, and experimental studies of critical Casimir forces in soft matter, with particular emphasis on their relevance for the str…
Probing interface localization-delocalization transitions by colloids
Svyatoslav Kondrat, Oleg A. Vasilyev, S. Dietrich
Interface localization-delocalization transitions (ILDT) occur in two-phase fluids confined in a slit with competing preferences of the walls for the two fluid phases. At low tempe…
Statistical field theory with constraints: application to critical Casimir forces in the canonical ensemble
Markus Gross, Andrea Gambassi, S. Dietrich
The effect of imposing a constraint on a fluctuating scalar order parameter field in a system of finite volume is studied within statistical field theory. The canonical ensemble, c…
Fluctuation induced forces in critical films with disorder at their surfaces
A. Maciolek, O. Vasilyev, V. Dotsenko +1
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 b…
Tricritical Casimir forces and order parameter profiles in wetting films of - mixtures
Nima Farahmand Bafi, Ania Maciołek, Siegfried Dietrich
Tricritical Casimir forces in - wetting films are studied, within mean field theory, in therms of a suitable lattice gas model for binary liquid mixtures…
Critical adsorption and critical Casimir forces in the canonical ensemble
Markus Gross, Oleg Vasilyev, Andrea Gambassi +1
Critical properties of a liquid film between two planar walls are investigated in the canonical ensemble, within which the total number of particles, rather than their chemical pot…
Three-body critical Casimir forces
T. G. Mattos, L. Harnau, S. Dietrich
Within mean-field theory we calculate universal scaling functions associated with critical Casimir forces for a system consisting of three parallel cylindrical colloids immersed in…
Effective interaction between a colloid and a soft interface near criticality
Adam D. Law, Ludger Harnau, Matthias Troendle +1
Within mean-field theory we determine the universal scaling function for the effective force acting on a single colloid located near the interface between two coexisting liquid pha…
Critical Casimir interactions around the consolute point of a binary solvent
T. F. Mohry, S. Kondrat, A. Maciolek +1
Spatial confinement of a near-critical medium changes its fluctuation spectrum and modifies the corresponding order parameter distribution. These effects result in effective, so-ca…
Critical Casimir Forces for Films with Bulk Ordering Fields
O. A. Vasilyev, S. Dietrich
The confinement of long-ranged critical fluctuations in the vicinity of second-order phase transitions in fluids generates critical Casimir forces acting on confining surfaces or a…
Critical Casimir torques and forces acting on needles in two spatial dimensions
O. A. Vasilyev, E. Eisenriegler, S. Dietrich
We investigate the universal orientation-dependent interactions between non-spherical colloidal particles immersed in a critical solvent by studying the instructive paradigm of a n…
Critical Casimir forces for Ising films with variable boundary fields
O. Vasilyev, A. Maciolek, S. Dietrich
Monte Carlo simulations based on an integration scheme for free energy differences is used to compute critical Casimir forces for three-dimensional Ising films with various boundar…
Critical Casimir effect for colloids close to chemically patterned substrates
M. Tröndle, S. Kondrat, A. Gambassi +2
Colloids immersed in a critical or near-critical binary liquid mixture and close to a chemically patterned substrate are subject to normal and lateral critical Casimir forces of do…