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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik
DY 19: Finite size effects at phase transitions I (session accompanying the symposium of the same name)
DY 19.4: Talk
Tuesday, March 27, 2007, 17:45–18:00, H2
Critical Casimir force scaling function of the mean spherical model — •Boris Kastening and Volker Dohm — Institut für Theoretische Physik, RWTH Aachen
Motivated by recent unexplained experimental data [1,2] concerning the scaling function of the critical Casimir force in Helium films below Tλ, we carry out an analysis of the finite-size scaling functions of the excess free energy and of the critical Casimir force within the mean spherical model below Tc in film geometry with d−1 infinitely extended dimensions and one direction of finite extent. We consider various boundary conditions.
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