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Comparison of Chiral Metamaterial Designs for Repulsive Casimir Force

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2010-07-13 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

In our previous work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 103602 (2009)], we found that repulsive Casimir forces could be realized by using chiral metamaterials if the chirality is strong enough. In this work, we check four different chiral metamaterial designs (i.e., Twisted-Rosettes, Twisted-Crosswires, Four-U-SRRs, and Conjugate-Swastikas) and find that the designs of Four-U-SRRs and Conjugate-Swastikas are the most promising candidates to realize repulsive Casimir force because of their large chirality and the small ratio of structure length scale to resonance wavelength.

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@article{arxiv.0911.2019,
  title  = {Comparison of Chiral Metamaterial Designs for Repulsive Casimir Force},
  author = {R. Zhao and Th. Koschny and E. N. Economou and C. M. Soukoulis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.2019},
  year   = {2010}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure, 1 table with 16 figures, letter. submitted to Phys. Rev. B, Rapid Communication