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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

We report an improved precision measurement of the Casimir force. The force is measured between a large Al coated sphere and flat plate using an Atomic Force Microscope. The primary experimental improvements include the use of smoother…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-09 Anushree Roy , Chiung-Yuan Lin , U. Mohideen

We present a Casimir force setup based on an all-optical ferrule-top sensor. We demonstrate that the instrument can be used to measure the gradient of the Casimir force between a gold coated sphere and a gold coated plate with results that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 P. Zuurbier , S. de Man , G. Gruca , K. Heeck , D. Iannuzzi

We study the Casimir friction phenomenon in a system consisting of two flat, infinite, and parallel graphene sheets, which are coupled to the vacuum electromagnetic (EM) field. Those couplings are implemented, in the description we use, by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-12 M. Belén Farias , César D. Fosco , Fernando C. Lombardo , Francisco D. Mazzitelli

We present the complete results for the dynamic experiment on measuring the gradient of the Casimir force between magnetic (Ni-coated) surfaces of a plate and a sphere. Special attention is paid to the description of some details of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-03-25 A. A. Banishev , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , U. Mohideen

The Casimir force between two infinitely thin parallel sheets in a setting of $N$ such sheets is found. The finite two-dimensional conductivities, which describe the dispersive and absorptive properties of each sheet, are taken into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 D. Drosdoff , Lilia M. Woods

We study the Casimir-Lifshitz force (CLF) between a gold plate and a graphene-covered dielectric grating. Using a scattering matrix (S-matrix) approach derived from the Fourier Modal Method (FMM), we find a significant enhancement in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Youssef Jeyar , Minggang Luo , Brahim Guizal , H. B. Chan , Mauro Antezza

The Casimir force is a universal interaction induced by electromagnetic quantum fluctuations between any types of objects. The expansion of the graphene family by adding silicene, germanene, and stanene, 2D allotropes of Si, Ge, and Sn,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp , Diego A. R. Dalvit , Lilia M. Woods

We investigate the Fermionic Casimir effect at finite temperature for two parallel chain of adatoms in a Graphene sheet, and the corresponding Casimir force is interpreted as an interaction between the adatom chains. We apply useful…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 Y. Koohsarian , A. Shirzad

We present theoretical description of the Casimir interaction in graphene systems which is based on the Lifshitz theory of dispersion forces and the formalism of the polarization tensor in (2+1)-dimensional space-time. The representation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 G. L. Klimchitskaya

We reconsider the long-explored problem that the magnitude of the measured Casimir force between an Au sphere and an indium tin oxide (ITO) film decreases significantly with no respective changes in the ITO dielectric permittivity required…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-21 G. L . Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

We show that it is possible to prepare and identify ultra--thin sheets of graphene on crystalline substrates such as SrTiO$_3$, TiO$_2$, Al$_2$O$_3$ and CaF$_2$ by standard techniques (mechanical exfoliation, optical and atomic force…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-06 S. Akcoeltekin , M. El Kharrazi , B. Koehler , A. Lorke , M. Schleberger

We describe a Casimir apparatus based on a differential force measurement between a Au-coated sphere and a planar slab divided in two regions, one of which is made of high-resistivity (dielectric) Si, and the other of Au. The crucial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Giuseppe Bimonte

The measurement of the Casimir force between a large gold coated sphere and single crystal silicon plate is performed with an atomic force microscope. A rigorous statistical comparison of data with theory is done, without use of the concept…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Chen , U. Mohideen , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

We propose two novel experiments on the measurement of the Casimir force acting between a gold coated sphere and semiconductor plates with markedly different charge carrier densities. In the first of these experiments a patterned Si plate…

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 show that the Casimir force gradient can be quantitatively measured with no contact involved. Results of the Casimir force measurement with systematic uncertainty of 3% are presented for the distance range of 100-600 nm. The statistical…

General Physics · Physics 2007-12-12 Guillaume Jourdan , Astrid Lambrecht , Fabio Comin , Joël Chevrier

We provide a theoretical model that describes the dielectric coupling of a 2D layer of graphene, represented by a polarization function in the Random Phase Approximation, and a semi-infinite 3D substrate, represented by a surface response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-10 K. F. Allison , Z. L. Miskovic

We consider a stack of parallel sheets composed of conducting planes with tensorial conductivities. Using the scattering matrix approach, we derive explicit formulas for the Casimir energy of two, three, and four planes, as well as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Natalia Emelianova , Rashid Kashapov , Nail Khusnutdinov

Stability of graphene cantilever under Casimir attraction to an underlying conductor is investigated. The dependence of the instability threshold on temperature and flexural rigidity is obtained. Analytical work is supplemented by numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Amel Derras-Chouk , Eugene Chudnovsky , Dmitry Garanin , Reem Jaafar