Rutgers University                     117th Statistical Mechanics Conference                       May 9, 2017

Transient Casimir Forces

from Quenches in Thermal and Active Matter

 


Alexandre Solon, Christian Rohwer & Matthias Krüger


Outline

I.      Casimir Forces: Long-range forces due to correlated fluctuations

II.     Active Matter & Transient Fluctuation-Induced Forces: Agitating a conserved density

III.   Simulations of Quenches in Thermal and Active Matter

IV.    Summary