The Rockefeller U.                 Center for studies in physics & biology seminar                     11 October 2016

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.       Non-equilibrium Pressure/Force: Radiative & Hydrodynamic

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

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

V.       Dynamic Casimir phenomena: Rotating sphere; Anomalous dispersion

VI.    Summary