UC Santa Barbara                                          Mathematical Physics seminar                                     1 February 2018

Force from Non-equilibrium Fluctuations

in QED and Active Matter

  

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Alexandre Solon, Avi Aminov, Y. Kafri

Christian Rohwer, M. Krüger

Mohammad Maghrebi, G. Bimonte, T. Emig, R.L. Jaffe

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


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 Steady States: Radiative & Hydrodynamic

V.       Dynamic Casimir phenomena: Rotating sphere; Anomalous dispersion

VI.    Summary