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The symmetron is a typical example of screened modified gravity, wherein the symmetron force is dynamically suppressed in dense environments. This allows it to hide in traditional tests of gravity. However, the past decade has seen great…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-01 Benjamin Elder , Valeri Vardanyan , Yashar Akrami , Philippe Brax , Anne-Christine Davis , Ricardo S. Decca

We investigate the Casimir force between two dissimilar plane mirrors the material properties of which are described by Drude or Lorentz models. We calculate analytically the short and long distance asymptote of the force and relate its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 A. Lambrecht , I. G. Pirozhenko

We study the lateral Casimir force experienced by a particle that rotates near a planar surface. The origin of this force lies in the symmetry breaking induced by the particle rotation in the vacuum and thermal fluctuations of its dipole…

The Casimir force between dissipative metallic mirrors at non zero temperature has recently given rise to contradictory claims which have raised doubts about the theoretical expression of the force. In order to contribute to the resolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Serge Reynaud , Astrid Lambrecht , Cyriaque Genet

We propose the experimental scheme and present detailed theory of the optical chopper which functionality is based on the balance between the Casimir and light pressures. The proposed device consists of two atomically thin metallic mirrors…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-18 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , V. M. Petrov , T. Tschudi

We derive the leading-order correction to the proximity force approximation (PFA) result for the electromagnetic Casimir interaction in the plane-sphere geometry by developing the scattering approach in the plane-wave basis. Expressing the…

We study the mechanical actions affecting close scatterers immersed in a coherent fermionic fluid. Using a scattering field theory, we theoretically analyse the single-scatterer and the two-scatterer case. Concerning the single-scatterer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-08 F. Romeo

The Casimir force between bodies in vacuum can be understood as arising from their interaction with an infinite number of fluctuating electromagnetic quantum vacuum modes, resulting in a complex dependence on the shape and material of the…

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

We use a functional approach to the Casimir effect in order to evaluate the exact vacuum energy for a real scalar field in $d+1$ dimensions, in the presence of backgrounds that, in a particular limit, impose Dirichlet boundary conditions on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. D. Fosco , F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli

We present a new derivation of the Casimir force between two parallel plane mirrors at zero temperature. The two mirrors and the cavity they enclose are treated as quantum optical networks. They are in general lossy and characterized by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cyriaque Genet , Astrid Lambrecht , Serge Reynaud

The Casimir force between parallel lines in a theory describing condensed vortices in a plane is determined. We make use of the relation between a Chern-Simons-Higgs model and its dualized version, which is expressed in terms of a dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-04 J. F. de Medeiros Neto , Rudnei O. Ramos , Carlos Rafael M. Santos

We calculate the Casimir interaction between two short range scatterers embedded in a background of one dimensional massless Dirac fermions using a force operator approach. We obtain the force between two finite width square barriers, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dina Zhabinskaya , Jesse M. Kinder , E. J. Mele

We study the Casimir friction due to the relative, uniform, lateral motion of two parallel semitransparent mirrors coupled to a vacuum real scalar field, $\phi$. We follow a functional approach, whereby nonlocal terms in the action for…

We apply the scattering approach to the Casimir interaction between two dielectric half-spaces separated by an electrolyte solution. We take the nonlocal electromagnetic response of the intervening medium into account, which results from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-30 P. A. Maia Neto , F. S. S. Rosa , L. B. Pires , A. B. Marim , A. Canaguier-Durand , R. Guérout , A. Lambrecht , S. Reynaud

We demonstrate that a very recently obtained formula for the force on a slab in a material planar cavity based on the calculation of the vacuum Lorentz force [C. Raabe and D.-G. Welsch, Phys. Rev. A 71, 013814 (2005)] describes a (medium)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. S. Tomas

We present an approach to studying the Casimir effects by means of the effective theory. An essential point of our approach is replacing the mirror separation into the size of space S^1 in the adiabatic approximation. It is natural to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Yukinori Nagatani , Kei Shigetomi

We review recent developments in the Casimir effect which arises in quantization volumes restricted by material boundaries and in spaces with non-Euclidean topology. The starting point of our discussion is the novel exact solution for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 V. M. Mostepanenko

We apply a perturbative approach to evaluate the Casimir energy for a massless real scalar field in 3+1 dimensions, subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions on two surfaces. One of the surfaces is assumed to be flat, while the other…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 C. D. Fosco , F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli

A mirror in the vacuum is submitted to a radiation pressure exerted by scattered fields. It is known that the resulting mean force is zero for a motionless mirror, but not for a mirror moving with a non-uniform acceleration. We show here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud