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Critical Casimir forces along the iso-fields
Using quasi-exact numerical density-matrix renormalization-group techniques
we calculate the critical Casimir force for a two-dimensional (2D) Ising strip
with equal strong surface fields, along the thermodynamic paths corresponding
to the fixed nonzero bulk field h0. Using the Derjaguin approximation we also
determine the critical Casimir force and its potential for two discs. We find
that varying the temperature along the iso-fields lying between the bulk
coexistence and the capillary condensation critical point leads to a dramatic
increase of the critical Casimir interactions with a qualitatively different
functional dependence on the temperature than along h=0. These findings might
be of relevance for biomembranes, whose heterogeneity is recently interpreted
as being connected with a critical behavior belonging to the 2D Ising
universality class.Comment: 9 pages, 12 figures, submitted to Physical Review