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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

We compute fluctuation-induced (Casimir) forces for classical systems after a temperature quench. Using a generic coarse-grained model for fluctuations of a conserved density, we find that transient forces arise even if the initial and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-11 Christian M. Rohwer , Mehran Kardar , Matthias Krüger

We develop a formalism to calculate the fluctuation-induced interactions in periodic systems. The formalism, which combines the scattering theory with the C method borrowed from electromagnetic gratings studies, is suitable and efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jef Wagner , Roya Zandi

The Casimir force between arbitrary objects in equilibrium is related to scattering from individual bodies. We extend this approach to heat transfer and Casimir forces in non-equilibrium cases where each body, and the environment, is at a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-31 Matthias Krüger , Thorsten Emig , Mehran Kardar

In an earlier work we showed that the gravitational interaction could be reproduced as a retarded dispersion interaction (Casimir interaction) between particles composed of hypothetical particles having harmonic oscillator interactions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-06 Bo E. Sernelius

Thermal fluctuations in non-equilibrium steady states generically lead to power law decay of correlations for conserved quantities. Embedded bodies which constrain fluctuations in turn experience fluctuation induced forces. We compute these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-07 Avi Aminov , Yariv Kafri , Mehran Kardar

The confinement of long-ranged critical fluctuations in the vicinity of second-order phase transitions in fluids generates critical Casimir forces acting on confining surfaces or among particles immersed in a critical solvent. This is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 O. A. Vasilyev , S. Dietrich

A spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background with a general scale factor is considered. In this space-time, the energy-momentum tensor of the scalar field with a general curvature coupling parameter is obtained. Using the Thermo…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 A. F. Santos , S. C. Ulhoa , Faqir C. Khanna

The principles of the electromagnetic fluctuation-induced phenomena such as Casimir forces are well understood. However, recent experimental advances require universal and efficient methods to compute these forces. While several approaches…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-17 Giuseppe Bimonte , Thorsten Emig

The Casimir effect for conductors at arbitrary temperatures is theoretically studied. By using the analytical properties of the Green functions and applying the Abel-Plan formula to Lifshitz's equation, the Casimir force is presented as sum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 V. N. Dubrava , V. A. Yampol'skii

In this paper, a massless scalar field coupled to gravity is considered. Then the Casimir effect at finite temperature is calculated. Such development is carried out in the Thermo Field Dynamics formalism. This approach presents a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-07 A. F. Santos , Faqir C. Khanna

The fluctuating hydrodynamics by Brey et. al. is analytically solved to get the long-time limit of the fluctuations of the number density, velocity field, and energy density around the homogeneous cooling state of a granular gas, under…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-27 Jesús David Jiménez Oliva , Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Nagi Khalil

The confinement of critical fluctuations in soft media induces critical Casimir forces acting on the confining surfaces. The temperature and geometry dependences of such forces are characterized by universal scaling functions. A novel…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-01-10 O. Vasilyev , A. Gambassi , A. Maciolek , S. Dietrich

Although stiction is a cumbersome problem for microsystems, it stimulates investigations of surface adhesion. In fact, the shape of an adhered cantilever carries information of the adhesion energy that locks one end to the substrate. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 V. B. Svetovoy , A. E. Melenev , M. V. Lokhanin , G. Palasantzas

The Casimir force between two conducting planes is considered in both the electromagnetic and scalar field cases. This is done by the usual summation over energy eigenmodes of the system as well as by a calculation of the stress tensor in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. R. Hagen

We discuss experimental schemes to measure the Casimir force and short range forces from hypothetical modified gravity with unprecedented sensitivity using highly sensitive prototype gravitational wave detectors as displacement sensors. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 G. Rajalakshmi , C. S. Unnikrishnan

We develop a spectral representation formalism to calculate the Casimir force in the non-retarded limit, between a spherical particle and a substrate, both with arbitrary local dielectric properties. This spectral formalism allows one to do…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cecilia Noguez , C. E. Roman-Velazquez

In this article we compute the Casimir force between two finite-width mirrors at finite temperature, working in a simplified model in 1+1 dimensions. The mirrors, considered as dissipative media, are modeled by a continuous set of harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Fernando C. Lombardo , Francisco D. Mazzitelli , Adrian E. Rubio Lopez

The Casimir force follows from quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field and yields a nonlinear attractive force between closely spaced conductive objects. Measuring the Casimir force in superconducting materials on either side of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Matthijs H. J. de Jong , Evren Korkmazgil , Louise Banniard , Mika A. Sillanpää , Laure Mercier de Lépinay

Starting from a Lagrangian, electromagnetic field in the presence of a nonlinear dielectric medium is quantized using path-integral techniques and correlation functions of different fields are calculated. The susceptibilities of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Fardin Kheirandish , Ehsan Amooghorban , Morteza Soltani