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We derive exact expressions for the Casimir scalar interaction energy between media-separated eccentric dielectric cylinders and for the media-separated cylinder-plane geometry using a mode-summation approach. Similarly to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-28 F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli , P. I. Villar , D. A. R. Dalvit

In this study, we consider motion of the massive and charged Bose gas trapped in electric and magnetic fields between two parallel plates in the $x-y$ plane that are separated by a distance $d$ in the $z$ direction. We derive analytical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-06 Seyit Deniz Han , Ekrem Aydiner

Casimir friction is analyzed for a pair of dielectric particles in relative motion. We first adopt a microscopic model for harmonically oscillating particles at finite temperature T moving non-relativistically with constant velocity. We use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 Johan S. Høye , Iver Brevik

We present boundary conditions for the electromagnetic fields on a \delta-function plate, having both electric and magnetic properties, sandwiched between two magneto-electric semi-infinite half spaces. The optical properties for an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-13 Kimball A. Milton , Prachi Parashar , Martin Schaden , K. V. Shajesh

We study the finite temperature Casimir interaction between two concentric cylinders. When the separation between the cylinders is much smaller than the radii of the cylinders, the asymptotic expansions of the Casimir interaction are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. P. Teo

We present a simple formalism for the evaluation of the Casimir energy for two spheres and a sphere and a plane, in case of a scalar fluctuating field, valid at any separations. We compare the exact results with various approximation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Aurel Bulgac , Piotr Magierski , Andreas Wirzba

We calculate the exact Casimir interaction energy between two perfectly conducting, very long, eccentric cylindrical shells using a mode summation technique. Several limiting cases of the exact formula for the Casimir energy corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 F. D. Mazzitelli , D. A. R. Dalvit , F. C. Lombardo

We study the Casimir interaction between perfectly conducting sphere and plate in the classical limit of high temperatures. By taking the small-distance expansion of the exact scattering formula, we compute the leading correction to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 Giuseppe Bimonte

The Casimir force between metallic plates made of realistic materials is evaluated for distances in the nanometer range. A spectrum over real frequencies is introduced and shows narrow peaks due to surface resonances (plasmon polaritons or…

We establish strict upper limits for the Casimir interaction between multilayered structures of arbitrary dielectric or diamagnetic materials. We discuss the appearance of different power laws due to frequency-dependent material constants.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Carsten Henkel , Karl Joulain

The existence of a monotonic distance dependent contact potential between two plates in a Casimir experiment leads to an additional electrostatic force that is significantly different from the case of a constant potential. Such a varying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-13 Steve K. Lamoreaux

On the basis of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics and point-scattering techniques, we derive a closed expression for the Casimir-Polder force between a ground-state atom and a small magnetodielectric sphere in an arbitrary environment. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-18 Agnes Sambale , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann , Stefan Scheel

We investigate the pseudo-Casimir force acting between two charged surfaces confining a single polyelectrolyte chain with opposite charge. We expand the exact free energy to the second order in the local electrostatic field as well as the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Podgornik , J. Dobnikar

The Casimir interaction energy due to the vacuum fluctuations of a massive vector field between two perfectly conducting concentric spherical bodies is computed. The TE contribution to the Casimir interaction energy is a direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 L. P. Teo

It has been established for a long time that the long range van der Waals or thermal Casimir interaction between two semi-infinite dielectrics separated by a distance $H$ is screened by an intervening electrolyte. Here we show how this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-23 Guangle Du , David S. Dean , Bing Miao , Rudolf Podgornik

We show that the Casimir-Polder potential of a particle in an energy eigenstate at nonretarded distance from a well-conducting body of arbitrary shape is independent of the environment temperature. This is true even when the thermal photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-23 Simen Å. Ellingsen , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann , Stefan Scheel

We study the resonant Casimir--Polder potential of an excited atom near a half space containing magneto-electric meta-material of various kinds on the basis of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics. Analytical results are obtained in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-04 Agnes Sambale , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann , Ho Trung Dung , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

We compute an analog Casimir effect in a one-dimensional spinless Luttinger liquid confined to a segment in the presence of a nearly-impenetrable partition dividing the segment into two compartments. The Casimir interaction is found to be a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Eugene B. Kolomeisky , Joseph P. Straley , Michael Timmins

We use a functional approach to evaluate the Casimir free energy for a self-interacting scalar field in $d+1$ dimensions, satisfying Dirichlet boundary conditions on two parallel planes. When the interaction is turned off, exact results for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-09-16 Claudio Ccapa Ttira , Cesar D. Fosco

The Casimir-Polder interaction between an atom and a multilayered system composed of infinitely thin planes is considered using the zeta-function regularization approach with summation of the zero-point energies. As a prototype material,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Nail Khusnutdinov , Rashid Kashapov , Lilia M. Woods