Nonadditivity of critical Casimir forces
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Date
2017Source Title
Proceedings of the OSA Biophotonics Congress: Optical Trapping Applications, 2017
Publisher
OSA
Language
English
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Abstract
We provide the first experimental evidence of nonadditivity for critical Casimir forces: the force that two colloidal particles exert together on a third one differs from the sum of the forces they exert separately.
Keywords
Colloidal particleCritical Casimir forces
Experimental evidence
Non-additivity
Quantum theory