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When comparing experimental results with theoretical predictions of the Casimir force, the accuracy of the theory is as important as the precision of experiments. Here we evaluate the Casimir force when finite conductivity of the reflectors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Cyriaque Genet , Astrid Lambrecht , Serge Reynaud

For the first time we present analytical results for the contribution of electromagnetic fluctuations into thermodynamic properties of modulated systems, like cholesteric or smectic liquid crystalline films. In the case of small dielectric…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 I. E. Dzyaloshinskii , E. I. Kats

The Casimir effect, the dispersion force attracting neutral objects to each other, may be understood in terms of multiple scattering of light between the interacting bodies. We explore the simple model in which the bodies are assumed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Simen Å. Ellingsen

The Casimir force between two parallel uncharged closely spaced metallic plates is evaluated in ways alternatives to those usually considered in the literature. In a first approximation we take in account the suppressed quantum numbers of a…

General Physics · Physics 2009-01-08 P. R. Silva

This paper extends our recent study on Casimir friction forces for dielectric plates moving parallel to each other [J. S. H{\o}ye and I. Brevik, Eur. Phys. J. D {\bf 68}, 61 (2014)], to the case where the plates are no longer restricted to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Johan S. Høye , Iver Brevik

The Casimir effect for spherical geometry is calculated using generalized Thermofield Dynamics for the case of scalar field. Casimir force and Casimir pressure are presented. It is found that for high temperatures the Casimir force does…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-03-25 D. U. Matrasulov , Kh. T. Butanov , Kh. Yu. Rakhimov , F. C. Khanna , A. E. Santana

We study Casimir interactions between cylinders in thermal non-equilibrium, where the objects as well as the environment are held at different temperatures. We provide the general formula for the force, in a one reflection approximation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-17 Vladyslav A. Golyk , Matthias Krüger , M. T. Homer Reid , Mehran Kardar

In this article, we derive the formula for the Casimir force acting on a piston made of real material moving inside a perfectly conducting rectangular box. It is shown that by taking suitable limits, one recovers the formula for the Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 L. P. Teo

We calculate the Casimir energy for scalar and gauge fields in interaction with zero-width mirrors, including quantum effects due to the matter fields inside the mirrors. We consider models where those fields are either scalar or fermionic,…

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

We investigate Casimir effect as well as thermal Casimir effect for a pair of parallel perfectly plates placed in general stationary space-time background. It is found that the Casimir energy is influenced by the 00-component of metric and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 Anwei Zhang

We give an overview of the work done during the past ten years on the Casimir interaction in electronic topological materials, our focus being solids which possess surface or bulk electronic band structures with nontrivial topologies, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Bing-Sui Lu

We investigate the electromagnetic Casimir interactions of an object contained within an otherwise empty, perfectly conducting spherical shell. For a small object we present analytical calculations of the force, which is directed away from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Saad Zaheer , Sahand Jamal Rahi , Thorsten Emig , Robert L. Jaffe

Uncharged parallel plates in the misaligned system can experience a tangential Casimir force between them. We consider the role of magnetic response in this effect by extending the tangential force to magnetic media, and the extension is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Zhentao Zhang

We start this paper with a historical survey of the Casimir effect, showing that its origin is related to experiments on colloidal chemistry. We present two methods of computing Casimir forces, namely: the global method introduced by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Carlos Farina

The Casimir force acting between two test bodies made of different metals is considered. The finiteness of the conductivity of the metals is taken into account perturbatively up to the fourth order of the relative penetration depths of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Geyer , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

The Casimir effect is investigated in cylindrical and toroidal carbon nanotubes within the framework of the Dirac-like model for the electronic states. The topological Casimir energy is positive for metallic cylindrical nanotubes and is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 A. A. Saharian

A powerful procedure is presented for calculating the Casimir attraction between plane parallel multilayers made up of homogeneous regions with arbitrary magnetic and dielectric properties by use of the Minkowski energy-momentum tensor. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Simen A. Ellingsen

Temperature correction to the Casimir force is considered for real metals at low temperatures. With the temperature decrease the mean free path for electrons becomes larger than the field penetration depth. In this condition description of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. B. Svetovoy , M. V. Lokhanin

It has recently been argued that Casimir-Lifshitz forces depend in detail on the microphysics of a system; calculations of the Casimir force in inhomogeneous media yield results that are cutoff-dependent. This result has been shown to hold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 William M. R. Simpson

We consider the finite temperature Casimir force acting on two parallel plates in a closed cylinder with the same cross section of arbitrary shape in the presence of extra dimensions. Dirichlet boundary conditions are imposed on one plate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 L. P. Teo , K. Kirsten