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We show that graphene-dielectric multilayers give rise to an unusual tunability of the Casimir-Lifshitz forces, and allow to easily realize completely different regimes within the same structure. Concerning thermal effects,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-27 Chahine Abbas , Brahim Guizal , Mauro Antezza

In this paper, the finite temperature Casimir force acting on a two-dimensional Casimir piston due to electromagnetic field is computed. It was found that if mixed boundary conditions are assumed on the piston and its opposite wall, then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-19 L. P. Teo

The Casimir effect at finite temperature is investigated for a dilute dielectric ball; i.e., the relevant internal and free energies are calculated. The starting point in this study is a rigorous general expression for the internal energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 V. V. Nesterenko , G. Lambiase , G. Scarpetta

We investigate the Casimir effect between two-dimensional electron systems driven to the quantum Hall regime by a strong perpendicular magnetic field. In the large separation (d) limit where retardation effects are essential we find i) that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Wang-Kong Tse , A. H. MacDonald

The electrical properties of graphene are known to be modified by chemical species that interact with it. We investigate the effect of doping of graphene-based devices by toluene (C6H5CH3). We show that this effect has a complicated…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-25 A. A. Kaverzin , S. M. Strawbridge , A. S. Price , F. Withers , A. K. Savchenko , D. W. Horsell

Graphene, a one-atom thick zero gap semiconductor [1, 2], has been attracting an increasing interest due to its remarkable physical properties ranging from an electron spectrum resembling relativistic dynamics [3-12] to ballistic transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 T. O. Wehling , K. S. Novoselov , S. V. Morozov , E. E. Vdovin , M. I. Katsnelson , A. K. Geim , A. I. Lichtenstein

The Casimir-Polder force between atoms or nanoparticles and graphene-coated dielectric substrates is investigated in the region of large separations. Graphene coating with any value of the energy gap and chemical potential is described in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 Galina L. Klimchitskaya , Vladimir M. Mostepanenko

The possibility to modify the strength of the Casimir effect by tailoring the dielectric functions of the interacting surfaces is regarded as a unique opportunity in the development of Micro- and NanoElectroMechanical Systems. In air,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-02 S. de Man , K. Heeck , R. J. Wijngaarden , D. Iannuzzi

We find that thin peptide films and coatings doped with metallic nanoparticles are more stable due to the role of electromagnetic fluctuations. It is shown that for the doped freestanding in vacuum peptide film the Casimir attraction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , E. N. Velichko

We present a formalism based on first principles of quantum electrodynamics at nonzero temperature which permits to calculate the Casimir-Polder interaction between an atom and a graphene sheet with arbitrary mass gap and chemical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 C. Henkel , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

We consider a stack of parallel sheets composed of conducting planes with tensorial conductivities. Using the scattering matrix approach, we derive explicit formulas for the Casimir energy of two, three, and four planes, as well as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Natalia Emelianova , Rashid Kashapov , Nail Khusnutdinov

We compare the two-dimensional (2D) plasmon dispersion relations for monolayer graphene when the sample is doped with carriers in the conduction band and the temperature $T$ is zero with the case when the temperature is finite and there is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Godfrey Gumbs , Antonios Balassis , V. M. Silkin

The Casimir-Polder interaction of ground-state and excited atoms with graphene is investigated with the aim to establish whether graphene systems can be used as a shield for vacuum fluctuations of an underlying substrate. We calculate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sofia Ribeiro , Stefan Scheel

We calculate the linear transverse current current response function for graphene at finite temperature and chemical potential. Within the Random Phase Approximation, we then discuss general aspects of transverse plasmons beyond the local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-12 A. Gutiérrez-Rubio , T. Stauber , F. Guinea

Using the recently derived representation for the polarization tensor in (2+1)-dimensional space-time allowing an analytic continuation to the entire plane of complex frequencies, we obtain simple analytic expressions for the reflection…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-08 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

We consider graphene sheet suspended above a conducting surface. Treating graphene as an elastic membrane subjected to Casimir force, we study its stability against attachment to the conductor. There exists a critical elevation at the edges…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 E. M. Chudnovsky , R. Zarzuela

We show by first-principles calculations that p-doped graphane is a conventional superconductor with a critical temperature (Tc) above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen. The unique strength of the chemical bonds between carbon atoms and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-12 G. Savini , A. C. Ferrari , F. Giustino

We adopt the Dirac model for graphene and calculate the Casimir interaction energy between a plane suspended graphene sample and a parallel plane ideal conductor. We employ both the Quantum Field Theory (QFT) approach, and the Lifshitz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 I. V. Fialkovsky

We derive an exact solution for the Casimir force between two arbitrary periodic dielectric gratings and illustrate our method by applying it to two nanostructured silicon gratings. We also reproduce the Casimir force gradient measured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Astrid Lambrecht , Valery N. Marachevsky

We investigate the thermal Casimir interaction of a suspended graphene described by the Dirac model with a plate made of dielectric or metallic materials. The reflection coefficients on graphene expressed in terms of a temperature-dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Bordag , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko