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In this paper the quantum vacuum energies induced by massive fluctuations of one real scalar field on a configuration of two partially transparent plates are analysed. The physical properties of the infinitely thin plates are characterized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-17 Jose M. Munoz-Castaneda , J. Mateos Guilarte , A. Moreno Mosquera

Graphene multilayers with flat moir\'e minibands can exhibit the quantized anomalous Hall effect due to the combined influence of spontaneous valley polarization and topologically non-trival valley-projected bands. The sign of the Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Chunli Huang , Nemin Wei , Allan H. MacDonald

We demonstrate quantum levitation controlled by Casimir forces acting between a polystyrene surface and a Teflon-coated metallic substrate immersed in a mixture of Toluene and magnetite particles. This system experiences…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Long Ma , Larissa Inácio , Dai-Nam Le , Lilia M. Woods , Mathias Boström

Thermal effects contributing to the Casimir interaction between objects are usually small at room temperature and they are difficult to separate from quantum mechanical contributions at higher temperatures. We propose that the thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Anh D. Phan , Lilia M. Woods , D. Drosdoff , I. V. Bondarev , N. A. Viet

We investigate the dependence of the thermal Casimir force between two graphene sheets on the drift velocity of the electrons in one graphene sheet. We show that the drift motion produces a measurable change of the thermal Casimir force due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-08 A. I. Volokitin , B. N. J. Persson

Chern insulator ferromagnets are characterized by a quantized anomalous Hall effect, and have so far been identified experimentally in magnetically-doped topological insulator (MTI) thin films and in bilayer graphene moir{\'e}…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-11 Jihang Zhu , Jung-Jung Su , Allan H. MacDonald

We evaluate the renormalized vacuum expectation values (VEVs) of electric and magnetic fields squared and the energy-momentum tensor for the electromagnetic field in the geometry of two parallel conducting plates on background of cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-06 E. R. Bezerra de Mello , A. A. Saharian , A. Kh. Grigoryan

In this article, we study the finite temperature Casimir effect for scalar field with Robin boundary conditions on two parallel plates in a background spacetime that has a compact internal manifold with arbitrary geometry. The finite…

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

We investigate the fluctuation-induced Casimir interactions between two parallel graphene sheets carrying steady-state drift currents. The graphene properties are modeled based on the shifted Fermi disk model to capture the non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Modi Ke , Dai-Nam Le , Lilia M. Woods

The Casimir repulsion between a metal and a dielectric suspended in a liquid has been thoroughly studied in recent experiments. In the present paper we consider surface modes in three layered systems modeled by dielectric functions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-02 I. Pirozhenko , A. Lambrecht

The physical origin of the negative thermal correction to the Casimir force between metals is clarified. For this purpose the asymptotic behavior of the thermal Casimir force is analyzed at large and small distances in the real frequency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vitaly B. Svetovoy

The Casimir-Polder interaction potential is evaluated for a polarizable microparticle and a conducting wall in the geometry of a cosmic string perpendicular to the wall. The general case of the anisotropic polarizability tensor for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-20 E. R. Bezerra de Mello , V. B. Bezerra , H. F. Mota , A. A. Saharian

The Casimir effect, originating from quantum and thermal fluctuations, is well known for inducing forces between closely spaced surfaces. When these surfaces are optically anisotropic, these interactions can produce a Casimir torque that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Benjamin Spreng , Jeremy N. Munday

The Casimir Effect is a physical manifestation of quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic vacuum. When two metal plates are placed closely together, typically much less than a micron, the long wavelength modes between them are frozen…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Alexander Stange , Matthias Imboden , Josh Javor , Lawrence K. Barrett , David J. Bishop

We calculate the Casimir force between two parallel plates if the boundary conditions for the photons are modified due to presence of the Chern-Simons term. We show that this effect should be measurable within the present experimental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bordag , D. V. Vassilevich

The Casimir energy for $N$ $\delta$-function plates depends on the multiple scattering parameter $\Delta$. This $N$-body interaction was distributed into interactions with nearest neighbour scattering and next-to-nearest neighbour…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Venkat Abhignan

We study the Casimir effect for scalar fields with general curvature coupling subject to mixed boundary conditions $(1+\beta_{m}n^{\mu}\partial_{\mu})\phi =0$ at $x=a_{m}$ on one ($m=1$) and two ($m=1,2$) parallel plates at a distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Romeo , A. A. Saharian

Within the framework of the Drude dispersive model, we predict an unusual non-monotonous temperature dependence of the Casimir force for thin metal films. For certain conditions, this force decreases with temperature due to the decrease of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. A. Yampol'skii , Sergey Savel'ev , Z. A. Mayselis , S. S. Apostolov , Franco Nori

In odd-dimensional spaces, gauge invariance permits a Chern-Simons mass term for the gauge fields in addition to the usual Maxwell-Yang-Mills kinetic energy term. We study the Casimir effect in such a (2+1)-dimensional Abelian theory. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Kimball A. Milton

We numerically examine run-and-tumble active matter particles in Casimir geometries composed of two finite parallel walls. We find that there is an attractive force between the two walls of a magnitude that increases with increasing run…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-07-30 D. Ray , C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt
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