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We investigate the pseudo-Casimir force acting between two charged surfaces confining a single polyelectrolyte chain with opposite charge. We expand the exact free energy to the second order in the local electrostatic field as well as the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Podgornik , J. Dobnikar

In this work, we consider a Casimir apparatus that is put into free fall (e.g., falling into a black hole). Working in 1+1D, we find that two main effects occur: First, the Casimir energy density experiences a tidal effect where negative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-19 Justin H. Wilson , Francesco Sorge , Stephen A. Fulling

In the final few years of his life, Julian Schwinger proposed that the ``dynamical Casimir effect'' might provide the driving force behind the puzzling phenomenon of sonoluminescence. Motivated by that exciting suggestion, we have computed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kimball A. Milton , Y. Jack Ng

The Casimir effect is a quantum phenomenon induced by the zero-point energy of relativistic fields confined in a finite-size system. This effect for photon fields has been studied for a long time, while the realization of counterparts for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Katsumasa Nakayama , Kei Suzuki

The problem of parameterizing the interactions of larger scales and smaller scales in fluid flows is addressed by considering a property of two-dimensional incompressible turbulence. The property we consider is selective decay, in which a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-31 F. Gay-Balmaz , D. D. Holm

Quantities associated with Casimir forces are calculated in a model wave system of one spatial dimension with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. 1)Due to zero-point fluctuations, a partition is attracted to the walls of a box if the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Timothy H. Boyer

The Casimir effect is a fundamental quantum phenomenon induced by the zero-point energy for a quantum field. It is well-known for relativistic fields with a linear dispersion relation, while its existence or absence for nonrelativistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Katsumasa Nakayama , Kei Suzuki

Suspensions of swimming particles exhibit complex collective behaviors driven by hydrodynamic interactions, showing persistent large-scale flows and long-range correlations. While heavily studied, it remains unclear how such structures…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-27 Bryce Palmer , Scott Weady , Michael O'Brien , Blakesley Burkhart , Michael J. Shelley

Mesoscopic particles immersed in a critical fluid experience long-range Casimir forces due to critical fluctuations. Using field theoretical methods, we investigate the Casimir interaction between two spherical particles and between a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Eisenriegler , U. Ritschel

The flow of fluids in channels, pipes or ducts, as in any other wall-bounded flow (like water along the hulls of ships or air on airplanes) is hindered by a drag, which increases many-folds when the fluid flow turns from laminar to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Itamar Procaccia , Victor S. L'vov , Roberto Benzi

The Casimir stress on a spherical shell in de Sitter background for massless scalar field satisfying Dirichlet boundary conditions on the shell is calculated. The metric is written in conformally flat form. Although the metric is time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. R. Setare , R. Mansouri

The critical Casimir force (CCF) arises from confining fluctuations in a critical fluid and thus it is a fluctuating quantity itself. While the mean CCF is universal, its (static) variance has previously been found to depend on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-21 Markus Gross , Andrea Gambassi , S. Dietrich

The Casimir energy of a solid ball (or cavity in an infinite medium) is calculated by a direct frequency summation using the contour integration. The dispersion is taken into account, and the divergences are removed by making use of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 V. V. Nesterenko , I. G. Pirozhenko

We investigate the forces exerted on embedded inclusions by a fluid medium with long-range correlations, described by an effective scalar field theory. Such forces are the basis for the medium-mediated Casimir-like force. To study these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-06-10 Anne-Florence Bitbol , Jean-Baptiste Fournier

We compute the finite temperature Casimir energy for massive scalar field with general curvature coupling subject to Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions on the walls of a closed cylinder with arbitrary cross section, located in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 L. P. Teo

Traditionally it is assumed that the Casimir vacuum pressure does not depend on the ultraviolet cut-off. There are, however, some arguments that the effect actually depends on the regularization procedure and thus on the trans-Planckian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 G. E. Volovik

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

Analytical properties of the scalar expansion in the cosmic fluid are investigated, especially near the future singularity, when the fluid possesses a constant bulk viscosity \zeta. In addition, we assume that there is a Casimir-induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Iver Brevik , Olesya Gorbunova , Diego Saez-Gomez

The dependence of the Casimir force on material properties is important for both future applications and to gain further insight on its fundamental aspects. Here we derive a general theory of the Casimir force for low-conducting compounds,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. G. Galkina , B. A. Ivanov , Sergey E. Savel'ev , V. A. Yampol'skii , Franco Nori

The critical Casimir effect provides a thermodynamic analogue of the well-known quantum mechanical Casimir effect. It acts between two surfaces immersed in a critical binary liquid mixture, and results from the confinement of concentration…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-15 Van Duc Nguyen , Suzanne Faber , Zhibing Hu , Gerard H. Wegdam , Peter Schall