Resummed two-loop calculation of the disjoining pressure of a symmetric electrolyte soap film.
In this paper we consider the calculation of the disjoining pressure of a symmetric electrolytic soap film correct to two loops in perturbation theory. We show that the disjoining pressure is finite when the loop expansion is resummed using a cumulant expansion and requires no short distance cutoff in order to give a finite result. The loop expansion is resummed in terms of an expansion in g= lB / lD where lD is the Debye length and lB is the Bjerrum length. We show that there there is a nonanalytic contribution of order g ln(g). We also show that the two-loop correction is greater than the one-loop term at large film thicknesses suggesting a nonperturbative correction to the one-loop result in this limit.
DAMTP, CMS, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0WA, United Kingdom. dean@irsamc.ups-tlse.fr
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