NYU                                                Physics Colloquium                                    2 February 2017

Force from Non-equilibrium Fluctuations

in QED and Active Matter


Yariv Kafri, Avi Aminov, Alexandre Solon

N. Nikola, R. Voituriez, Y. Fily, A. Baskaran, M.E. Cates, J. Tailleur

Christian Rohwer, Matthias Krüger


Outline (Search for Universality)

I.        Equilibrium Pressure & Fluctuation-Induced Force:  Particles & Radiation; thermal, quantum & critical

II.      Pressure of Active Matter: Torques & Wall potential; Ratchets, Instability & Self-propulsion

III.     Transient Fluctuation-Induced Force: Agitating a conserved density

IV.     Non-equilibrium Pressure/Force: Radiative & Hydrodynamic

V.       Dynamic Casimir phenomena: Rotating sphere; Anomalous dispersion

VI.    Summary