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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

It is well known that the Casimir force between two half-spaces is dictated by their electromagnetic properties. In particular, when one of the half-spaces is mainly metallic or dielectric and the other is mainly magnetic, it is possible to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 F. S. S. Rosa

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

In 1948 H.B.G.Casimir predicted that an attractive force between two perfectly conducting neutral plates exists due to changes in the electromagnetic vacuum energy caused by the influence of the plates. In 1956 E.M. Lifshitz derived an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karen Windmeier Wetz

The Casimir effect arises when long-ranged fluctuations are geometrically confined between two surfaces, leading to a macroscopic force. Traditionally, these forces have been observed in quantum systems and near critical points in classical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-19 Justin C. Burton , Juan-José Liétor-Santos

The mutual electromagnetic correlations between two spatially separated systems gives rise to Casimir and Casimir-Polder effect. The corresponding forces, which are generally attractive for most vacuum-separated metallic or dielectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Partha Goswami

Systems described by an O(n) symmetrical $\phi^4$ Hamiltonian are considered in a $d$-dimensional film geometry at their bulk critical points. The critical Casimir forces between the film's boundary planes $\mathfrak{B}_j, j=1,2$, are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Felix M. Schmidt , H. W. Diehl

The Casimir force between metallic plates made of realistic materials is evaluated for distances in the nanometer range. A spectrum over real frequencies is introduced and shows narrow peaks due to surface resonances (plasmon polaritons or…

In this paper we critically reconsider the Casimir repulsion between surfaces that carry the Chern-Simons interaction (corresponding to the Hall type conductivity). We present a derivation of the Lifshitz formula valid for arbitrary planar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 Ignat Fialkovsky , Nail Khusnutdinov , Dmitri Vassilevich

The Casimir interactions in the solid-liquid-solid systems as a function of separation distance have been studied by the Lifshitz theory. The dielectric permittivity functions for a wide range of materials are described by Drude,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 Anh D. Phan , N. A. Viet

Based on a generalization of the Lifshiftz theory we calculate Casimir forces involving magnetodielectric and possibly anisotropic metamaterials, focusing on the possibility of repulsive forces. It is found that Casimir repulsion decreases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. S. S. Rosa , D. A. R. Dalvit , P. W. Milonni

We show that weakly incoherent optical beams propagating in a Kerr medium exhibit a universal algebraic coherence after a short propagation time, mimicking the quasi-long-range order of ultracold quantum Bose gases in two dimensions. If two…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-25 Tamara Bardon-brun , Simon Pigeon , Nicolas Cherroret

The Casimir force between two parallel plates separated by anisotropic media is investigated. We theoretically calculate the Casimir force between two parallel plates when the interspace between the plates is filled with anisotropic media.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-29 Gang Deng , Bao-Hua Tan , Ling Pei , Ni Hu , Jin-Rong Zhu

We predict a nonlinear Hall effect in certain Weyl semimetals with broken inversion symmetry. When the energy dispersions about pairs of Weyl nodes are skewed -- the Weyl cones are "tilted" -- the concerted actions of the anomalous velocity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Rui-Hao Li , Olle G. Heinonen , Anton A. Burkov , Steven S. -L. Zhang

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

We study the influence of a background uniform magnetic field and boundary conditions on the vacuum of a quantized charged massive scalar matter field confined between two parallel plates; the magnetic field is directed orthogonally to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Yu. A. Sitenko , S. A. Yushchenko

We measure the Casimir force between a gold sphere and a silicon plate with nanoscale, rectangular corrugations with depth comparable to the separation between the surfaces. In the proximity force approximation (PFA), both the top and…

Negative longitudinal magnetoresistance, in the presence of an external magnetic field parallel to the direction of an applied current, has recently been experimentally verified in Weyl semimetals and topological insulators in the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 S. Nandy , A. Taraphder , Sumanta Tewari

We study the Casimir effect for a three dimensional system of ideal free massive Bose gas in a slab geometry with Zaremba and anti-periodic boundary conditions. It is found that for these type of boundary conditions the resulting Casimir…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-09 Mir Mehedi Faruk , Shovon Biswas

We evaluate the Casimir energy and force for a massive scalar field with general curvature coupling parameter, subject to Robin boundary conditions on two codimension-one parallel plates, located on a $(D+1)$-dimensional background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-10 E. Elizalde , S. D. Odintsov , A. A. Saharian