Phys. Rev. E 70, 011101 (2004) [8 pages]Resummed two-loop calculation of the disjoining pressure of a symmetric electrolyte soap filmReceived 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=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. © 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
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