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Phys. Rev. E 70, 011101 (2004) [8 pages]

Resummed two-loop calculation of the disjoining pressure of a symmetric electrolyte soap film

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D. S. Dean1,2,* and R. R. Horgan1,†
1DAMTP, CMS, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0WA, United Kingdom
2IRSAMC, Laboratoire de Physique Quantique, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 04, France

Received 9 March 2004; published 15 July 2004

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=lBlD 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.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.70.011101
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.70.011101
PACS:
05.20.−y, 68.15.+e, 52.25.Kn

*Electronic address: dean@irsamc.ups-tlse.fr

Electronic address: rrh@damtp.cam.ac.uk