Abstract
The influence of fluctuations due to thermal excitations on the interactions between membranes is reviewed. The complex interplay between the bare interactions (for example Van der Waals, hydration or electrostatic forces) and the membranes’ thermal fluctuations is analyzed within a linear functional renormalization group (FRG), for membranes with a significant surface tension and for membranes with a vanishing surface tension and non-zero curvature rigidity.
In all cases, the fluctuations erase the details of the interactions which characterize each particular system and produce universal behaviour.
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Sornette, D. (1987). Fluctuations and Interactions Between Membranes. In: Meunier, J., Langevin, D., Boccara, N. (eds) Physics of Amphiphilic Layers. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83202-4_10
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