2005/08/31 by Boris Kastening · 22 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Chemistry · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Chemistry #Classical mechanics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Computer science #Constant (computer programming) #Fluid pressure #Limit (mathematics) #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Mechanics #Membrane #Monte Carlo method #Perturbation (astronomy) #Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics) #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Statistical physics #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech #q-bio.QM
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.73.011101
published in Physical Review E 73(1), 011101 (American Physical Society) · 9 pages, 1 figure; section III shortened, discussion extended, some minor changes
openalex publication_date 2006/01/09 · arxiv created 2006/01/13 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The fluctuation pressure that an infinitely extended fluid membrane exerts on two enclosing parallel hard walls is computed. Variational perturbation theory is used to extract the hard-wall limit from a perturbative expansion through six loops obtained with a smooth wall potential. Our result alpha=0.0821 +/- 0.0005 for the constant conventionally parametrizing the pressure lies above earlier Monte Carlo results.