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Fluctuation pressure of a fluid membrane between walls through six loops

Boris Kastening

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0508614

Abstract

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.

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