Conformal field theory of critical Casimir interactions in 2D

Thermal fluctuations of a critical system induce long-ranged Casimir forces between objects that couple to the underlying field. For two-dimensional (2D) conformal field theories (CFT) we derive an exact result for the Casimir interaction between two objects of arbitrary shape, in terms of 1) the fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bimonte, Giuseppe, Emig, Thorsten, Kardar, Mehran
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88488
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-5912