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Soft, repulsive run-and-tumble particles display emergent effective interactions as they appear to stick to each other in spite of the absence of attractive forces. This effective attraction emerges at strong enough repulsion and large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-05 Rosalba Garcia-Millan , Ziluo Zhang , Luca Cocconi , Marius Bothe , Letian Chen , Zigan Zhen , Gunnar Pruessner

We extend a recently introduced method for computing Casimir forces between arbitrarily--shaped metallic objects [M. T. H. Reid et al., Phys. Rev. Lett._103_ 040401 (2009)] to allow treatment of objects with arbitrary material properties,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-21 M. T. Homer Reid , Jacob White , Steven G. Johnson

We numerically examine the transport of active run-and-tumble particles driven with a drift force over random disordered landscapes comprised of fixed obstacles. For increasing run lengths, the net particle transport initially increases…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-06 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

The Casimir effect, arising from vacuum quantum fluctuations, plays a fundamental role in the development of modern quantum electrodynamics. In parallel, the field of condensed matter has flourished through the discovery of various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Zixuan Dai , Qing-Dong Jiang

We consider particle creation (the Dynamical Casimir effect) in a uniformly contracting ideal one-dimensional cavity non-perturbatively. The exact expression for the energy spectrum of created particles is obtained and its dependence on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. M. Fedotov , Yu. E. Lozovik , N. B. Narozhny , A. N. Petrosyan

The presence of finite energy in quantum vacuum has profound implications to physics at the microscopic and macroscopic levels. One of the direct consequences of vacuum energy is the Casimir Force, which is a force of attraction experienced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-29 G. Rajalakshmi

We develop a model of a quantum field confined within a cavity with a movable wall where the position of the wall is quantized. We obtain a full description of the dynamics of both the quantum field and the confining wall depending on the…

We study the Casimir effect for parallel plates with massless Majorana fermions obeying the bag boundary conditions at finite temperature. The thermal influence will modify the effect. It is found that the sign of the Casimir energy keeps…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-08-27 Hongbo Cheng

By means of two simple examples: phase and amplitude damping, the impact of decoherence on the dynamical Casimir effect is investigated. Even without dissipating energy (i.e., pure phase damping), the amount of created particles can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ralf Schützhold , Markus Tiersch

We present both analytical and numerical results for the behaviour of the Casimir force in a Ginzburg-Landau type model of a film of a simple fluid or binary liquid mixture in which the confining surfaces are strongly adsorbing but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-06 Daniel Dantchev , Vassil Vassilev , Peter Djondjorov

In this paper the Casimir energy of two parallel plates made by materials of different penetration depth and no medium in between is derived. We study the Casimir force density and derive analytical constraints on the two penetration depths…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Luigi Rosa , Astrid Lambrecht

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

The generation of photons in a three dimensional rectangular cavity with two moving boundaries is studied by using the Multiple Scale Analysis (MSA). It is shown that number of photons are enhanced for the cavity whose walls oscillate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Cem Yuce , Zalihe Ozcakmakli

We consider the vacuum energy of the electromagnetic field in systems characterized by a constant conductivity using the zeta-regularization approach. The interaction in two cases is investigated: two infinitely thin parallel sheets and an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-11 Nail Khusnutdinov , D. Drosdoff , Lilia M. Woods

The fluctuation-induced, Casimir-like interaction between two parallel rods of length L adsorbed on a fluid membrane is calculated analytically at short separations d<<L. The rods are modeled as constraints imposed on the membrane curvature…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-11-11 Anne-Florence Bitbol , Kévin Sin Ronia , Jean-Baptiste Fournier

From energy considerations there is reason to expect that the work done by Casimir forces during a slow displacement of the parallel plates reflects the free energy of the surface tension of the adjacent surfaces. We show this explicitly,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-30 J. S. Høye , I. Brevik

Using molecular dynamics simulations, we have determined that the nature of dynamical heterogeneity in jammed liquids is very sensitive to short-ranged attractions. Weakly attractive systems differ little from dense hard-sphere and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 David R. Reichman , Eran Rabani , Phillip L. Geissler

We study hydrodynamic interactions of spherical particles in incident Poiseuille flow in a channel with infinite planar walls. The particles are suspended in a Newtonian fluid, and creeping-flow conditions are assumed. Numerical results,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bhattacharya , J. Blawzdziewicz , E. Wajnryb

The Casimir effect is considered for a wedge with opening angle $\alpha $, with perfectly conducting walls, when the interior region is filled with an isotropic and nondispersive medium with permittivity $\epsilon $ and permeability $\mu $.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-14 I. Brevik , K. Pettersen

In the present paper, we show that a partially reflecting static mirror with time-dependent properties can produce, via dynamical Casimir effect in the context of a massless scalar field in $1+1$ dimensions, a larger number of particles…