UMass Amherst                  Condensed Matter Seminar                     29 September 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

I.        Equilibrium Pressure:  Particles & Radiation   

II.      Fluctuation-Induced Force:  Quantum & Critical    

III.     Non-equilibrium Pressure: Radiative & Hydrodynamic

IV.     Pressure of Active Matter: Torques & Wall potential

V .      Wall Curvature and tension: Ratchets, Instability & Self-propulsion

VI.     Transient Force: Agitating a conserved density

VII.    Dynamic Casimir: Rotating sphere

VIII.  Force Fluctuations: Anomalous dispersion

IX.    Summary