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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 41: Poster - Pattern/ Nonlinear Dyn./ Fluids/ Granular/ Critical Phen.

DY 41.45: Poster

Thursday, April 3, 2014, 17:00–19:00, P3

Thermodynamic Casimir Forces between a Sphere and a Plate: Monte Carlo Simulation of a Spin Model — •Martin Hasenbusch — Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Deutschland

We study the thermodynamic Casimir force between a spherical object and a plate. We consider the bulk universality class of the three-dimensional Ising model, which is relevant for experiments on binary mixtures. To this end, we simulate the improved Blume-Capel model. Following Hucht, we compute the force by integrating internal energy differences over the inverse temperature. We demonstrate that these energy differences can be computed efficiently by using a particular cluster algorithm. Our numerical results for strongly symmetry breaking boundary conditions are compared with the Derjaguin approximation for small distances and the small sphere expansion for large distances between the sphere and the plate.