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We investigate the force acting between two parallel plates held at different temperatures. The force reproduces, as limiting cases, the well known Casimir-Lifshitz surface-surface force at thermal equilibrium and the surface-atom force out…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mauro Antezza , Lev P. Pitaevskii , Sandro Stringari , Vitaly B. Svetovoy

The temperature dependence of the Casimir-Polder interaction addresses fundamental issues for understanding vacuum and thermal fluctuations. It is highly sensitive to surface waves which, in the near field, govern the thermal emission of a…

Fluctuation-induced forces, primarily represented by quantum and critical Casimir effects, play a pivotal role at the nanoscale. This review explores the theoretical and experimental landscapes of these forces, offering a comprehensive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Roberto Passante , Lucia Rizzuto , Peter Schall , Emanuele Marino

We consider the Casimir effect for a sphere in front of a plane at finite temperature for scalar and electromagnetic fields and calculate the limiting cases. For small separation we compare the exact results with the corresponding ones…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Bordag , I. Pirozhenko

A novel approach for calculating Casimir forces between periodically deformed objects is developed. This approach allows, for the first time, a rigorous non-perturbative treatment of the Casimir effect for disconnected objects beyond…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-17 Thorsten Emig

In this paper, we study the Casimir effect in a curved spacetime described by gravitational actions quadratic in the curvature. In particular, we consider the dynamics of a massless scalar field confined between two nearby plates and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-04 Luca Buoninfante , Gaetano Lambiase , Luciano Petruzziello , Antonio Stabile

We examine the Casimir effect for free statistical field theories which have Hamiltonians with second order derivative terms. Examples of such Hamiltonians arise from models of non-local electrostatics, membranes with non-zero bending…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-25 David S. Dean , Bing Miao , Rudolf Podgornik

Quantum and thermal fluctuations are fundamental to a plethora of phenomena within quantum optics, including the Casimir effect that acts between closely separated surfaces typically found in MEMS and NEMS devices. Particularly promising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Benjamin Spreng , Calum Shelden , Tao Gong , Jeremy N. Munday

Casimir forces can appear between intrusions placed in different media driven by several fluctuation mechanisms, either in equilibrium or out of it. Herein, we develop a general formalism to obtain such forces from the dynamical equations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Ricardo Brito , Rodrigo Soto

By considering the effect of diffusion on the external electric field response of charge carriers in metals and semiconductors, it is shown that the finite temperature correction proposed Bostrom and Sernelius requires substantial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-09 Steve K. Lamoreaux

The temperature dependence of the Casimir effect for the radiation field confined between two conducting plates is analysed. The Casimir energy is shown to decline exponentially with temperature while the Casimir entropy which is defined in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Revzen , A. Mann

The Casimir interaction energy for a class of discrete self-similar configuration of parallel plates is evaluated using existing methods. The similarities to characteristics of an attractive Casimir force is deduced only at infinite range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Venkat Abhignan , R. Sankaranarayanan

The Casimir effect is a quantum phenomenon rooted in the fact that vacuum fluctuations of quantum fields are affected by the presence of physical objects and boundaries. Since the energy spectrum of the vacuum fluctuations depends on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 M. N. Chernodub , V. A. Goy , A. V. Molochkov

We study the statistical fluctuations of the Casimir potential felt by an atom approaching a dielectric disordered medium. Starting from a microscopic model for the disorder, we calculate the variance of potential fluctuations in the limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 Nicolas Cherroret , Romain Guérout , Astrid Lambrecht , Serge Reynaud

Electromagnetic fluctuation-induced forces between atoms and surfaces are generally known as Casimir-Polder interactions. The exact knowledge of these forces is rapidly becoming important in modern experimental set-ups and for technological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-28 F. Intravaia , C. Henkel , M. Antezza

The finite temperature Casimir free energy, entropy, and internal energy are considered anew for a conventional parallel-plate configuration, in the light of current discussions in the literature. In the case of an "ideal" metal,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-14 J. S. Hoye , I. Brevik , J. B. Aarseth , K. A. Milton

We address three different problematic Casimir experiments in this work. The first is the classical Casimir force measured between two metal half spaces; here in the form of the Casimir pressure measurement between a gold sphere and a gold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-27 Bo E. Sernelius

We consider the Casimir effect of a massive vector field between two semi-infinite dielectric slabs. We first derive the generalization of the Lifshitz formula that gives the Casimir interaction energy of two magnetodielectric slabs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 L. P. Teo

The Casimir interaction is omnipresent source of forces at small separations between bodies, which is difficult to change by varying external conditions. Here we show that graphene interacting with a metal can have the best known force…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-30 Vitaly Svetovoy , Zakaria Moktadir , Miko Elwenspoek , Hiroshi Mizuta

The Casimir effect is induced by the interplay between photon fields and boundary conditions, and in particular, photon fields modified in axion electrodynamics may lead to the sign-flipping of the Casimir energy. We propose a theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-06 Katsumasa Nakayama , Kei Suzuki