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受限弹性体薄膜的伪Casimir应力和弹性

Pseudo-Casimir stresses and elasticity of a confined elastomer film

Bing-Sui Lu, Ali Naji, Rudolf Podgornik

摘要:

传统上,本体弹性体的弹性行为的研究是在经典橡胶弹性的基础上进行的,经典橡胶弹性将链视为热波动的,但忽略了交联的热波动。在这里,我们考虑一个不可压缩的平面弹性体膜的轴对称形状之间的两个大的硬共面基板,与膜的轴垂直的基板。我们解决的影响,热波动的交联上的自由能的弹性形变的系统,受到的要求,波动的弹性体不能脱离基板。我们研究的行为的变形自由能的一种情况下,刚性钉扎边界条件被施加到一类弹性波动的限制表面,和另一种情况下,相同的弹性波动进行软“胶合”的潜力。我们发现,可以有显着的偏离(定量和定性)从经典的橡胶弹性理论的预测时,弹性波动。最后,我们比较了弹性波动引起的吸引力部分或伪Casimir应力与受限但非弹性体系统中的标准热Casimir应力的特性,发现当施加刚性钉扎边界条件时,对于胶合势的情况,我们发现对涨落应力吸引部分的首阶修正与衬底间的间距成反比衰减。

英文摘要:

Investigations of the elastic behavior of bulk elastomers have traditionally proceeded on the basis of classical rubber elasticity, which regards chains as thermally fluctuating but disregards the thermal fluctuations of the cross-links. Here, we consider an incompressible and flat elastomer film of an axisymmetric shape confined between two large hard co-planar substrates, with the axis of the film perpendicular to the substrates. We address the impact that thermal fluctuations of the cross-links have on the free energy of elastic deformation of the system, subject to the requirement that the fluctuating elastomer cannot detach from the substrates. We examine the behavior of the deformation free energy for one case where a rigid pinning boundary condition is applied to a class of elastic fluctuations at the confining surfaces, and another case where the same elastic fluctuations are subjected to soft "gluing" potentials. We find that there can be significant departures (both quantitative and qualitative) from the prediction of classical rubber elasticity theory when elastic fluctuations are included. Finally, we compare the character of the attractive part of the elastic fluctuation-induced, or pseudo-Casimir, stress with the standard thermal Casimir stress in confined but non-elastomeric systems, finding the same power law decay behavior when a rigid pinning boundary condition is applied, for the case of the gluing potential, we find that the leading order correction to the attractive part of the fluctuation stress decays inversely with the inter-substrate separation.

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