Effective Hamiltonian for fluid membranes in the presence of long-ranged forces.
If the constituent particles of fluid phases interact via long-ranged van der Waals forces, the effective Hamiltonian for interfaces between such fluid phases contains--in lateral Fourier space--nonanalytic terms approximately q4ln q. Similar nonanalytic terms characterize the effective Hamiltonian for two interacting interfaces which can emerge between the three possible coexisting fluid phases in binary liquid mixtures. This is in contrast with the structure of the phenomenological Helfrich Hamiltonian for membranes, which does not contain such nonanalytic terms. We show that under favorable conditions for the bulk densities characterizing a binary liquid mixture and for the long-ranged interparticle interactions, the corresponding effective Hamiltonian for a model fluid membrane does not exhibit such nonanalytic contributions. We discuss the properties of the resulting effective Hamiltonian, with a particular emphasis on the influence of the long range of the interactions on the coefficient of the bending rigidity.
Instytut Fizyki Teoretycznej, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 00-681 Warszawa, Hoza 69, Poland.
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Napiórkowski
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Dietrich