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We analyse the potential of the geometry of a slab in a planar cavity for the purpose of Casimir force experiments. The force and its dependence on temperature, material properties and finite slab thickness are investigated both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Simen A. Ellingsen , Iver Brevik

In this paper, the finite temperature Casimir force acting on a two-dimensional Casimir piston due to electromagnetic field is computed. It was found that if mixed boundary conditions are assumed on the piston and its opposite wall, then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-19 L. P. Teo

Within the scattering theoretical approach, the Casimir force is obtained numerically by an evaluation of the round trip of an electromagnetic wave between the objects involved. Recently [Hartmann M et al. 2017, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 043901]…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Michael Hartmann , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Paulo A. Maia Neto

We investigate the possibility of measuring the thermal Casimir force and its gradient in the configuration of a plate and a microfabricated cylinder attached to a micromachined oscillator. The Lifshitz-type formulas in this configuration…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. S. Decca , E. Fischbach , G. L. Klimchitskaya , D. E. Krause , D. Lopez , V. M. Mostepanenko

The standard expression of the high-temperature Casimir force between perfect conductors is obtained by imposing macroscopic boundary conditions on the electromagnetic field at metallic interfaces. This force is twice larger than that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. R. Buenzli , Ph. A. Martin

We review several different approaches for computing Casimir forces and related fluctuation-induced interactions between bodies of arbitrary shapes and materials. The relationships between this problem and well known computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-11 Steven G. Johnson

The mapping between a classical length and inverse temperature as imaginary time provides a direct equivalence between the Casimir force of a classical system in $D$ dimensions and internal energy of a quantum system in $d$$=$$D$$-$$1$…

An exact statistical mechanical derivation is given of the critical Casimir forces for Ising strips with arbitrary surface fields applied to edges. Our results show that the strength as well as the sign of the force can be controled by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Douglas B. Abraham , Anna Maciolek

This paper presents a new method for the efficient numerical computation of Casimir interactions between objects of arbitrary geometries, composed of materials with arbitrary frequency-dependent electrical properties. Our method formulates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 M. T. Homer Reid , Jacob White , Steven G. Johnson

We explore the scattering approach to Casimir forces. Our main tool is the description of Casimir energy in terms of transition operators, as presented in Kenneth and Klich, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 160401 (2006). We study the convergence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Oded Kenneth , Israel Klich

We compute the Casimir interaction energy between two perfectly conducting, concentric cylinders, using the mode-by-mode summation technique. Then we compare it with the approximate results obtained using the proximity theorem and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francisco D. Mazzitelli

We find the exact Casimir force between a plate and a cylinder, a geometry intermediate between parallel plates, where the force is known exactly, and the plate--sphere, where it is known at large separations. The force has an unexpectedly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Emig , R. L. Jaffe , M. Kardar , A. Scardicchio

Quantum fluctuations give rise to Casimir forces between two parallel conducting plates, the magnitude of which increases monotonically as the separation decreases. By introducing nanoscale gratings to the surfaces, recent advances have…

The Casimir-Lifshitz force is calculated between two inhomogeneous composite slabs, each made of a homogeneous matrix with spherical metallic inclusions. The effective dielectric function of the slabs is calculated using several effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Esquivel-Sirvent , G. C. Schatz

We report on the measurement of the Casimir force between conducting surfaces in a parallel configuration. The force is exerted between a silicon cantilever coated with chromium and a similar rigid surface and is detected looking at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Bressi , G. Carugno , R. Onofrio , G. Ruoso

We develop a discretized theory of thermal Casimir interactions to numerically calculate the interactions between fluctuating dielectrics. From a constrained partition function we derive a surface free energy, while handling divergences…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Pasquali , F. Nitti , A. C. Maggs

We develop the scattering approach to calculate the exact dispersive Casimir-Polder potential between a ground-state atom and a rectangular grating. Our formalism allows, in principle, for arbitrary values of the grating amplitude and…

We develop a computational study of Casimir forces between three dimensional (3D) finite objects with an internal granular structure. The objects in the model consist of a finite arrangement of nanometer sized spherical particles having a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-13 C E Román-Velázquez , Bo E Sernelius

Among the various kinds of effective forces in soft matter, the spatial range and the direction of the so-called critical Casimir force - which is generated by the enhanced thermal fluctuations close to a continuous phase transition - can…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-14 Andrea Gambassi , S. Dietrich

We study the lateral dependence of the Casimir energy for different corrugated gratings of arbitrary periodic profile. To this end we model the profiles as stacks of horizontal rectangular slices following the profiles' shape and evaluate…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-16 Johann Lussange , Romain Guérout , Astrid Lambrecht