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Two thin conducting, electrically neutral, parallel plates forming an isolated system in vacuum exert attracting force on each other, whose origin is the quantum electrodynamical interaction. This theoretical hypothesis, known as Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrzej Herdegen

In this article, we present a nano-electromechanical system (NEMS) designed to detect changes in the Casimir Energy. The Casimir effect is a result of the appearance of quantum fluctuations in the electromagnetic vacuum. Previous…

Casimir-type forces, such as those between two neutral conducting plates, or between a sphere, atom or molecule and a plate have been widely studied and are becoming of increasing significance, for example, in nanotechnology. A key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-24 Alvaro M. Alhambra , Achim Kempf , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

The Casimir force can be understood as resulting from the radiation pressure exerted by the vacuum fluctuations reflected by boundaries. We extend this local formulation to the case of partially transmitting boundaries by introducing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

Casimir effect is the attractive force which acts between two plane parallel, closely spaced, uncharged, metallic plates in vacuum. This phenomenon was predicted theoretically in 1948 and reliably investigated experimentally only in recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

We investigate the Casimir effect for a massless scalar field confined between two parallel semitransparent mirrors in a vacuum modified by spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking. Using Green's function techniques and a point-splitting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-01 Román Linares , C. A. Escobar , A. Martín-Ruiz , E. Plácido

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

Two close parallel mirrors attract due to a small force (Casimir effect) originating from the electromagnetic quantum vacuum uctuations of the electromagnetic field. These vacuum uctuations can also induce motional forces exerted upon one…

Like Casimir's original force between conducting plates in vacuum, Casimir forces are usually attractive. But repulsive Casimir forces can be achieved in special circumstances. These might prove useful in nanotechnology. We give examples of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-09 K. A. Milton , E. K. Abalo , Prachi Parashar , Nima Pourtolami , Iver Brevik , S. A. Ellingsen

Fluctuation-induced forces, primarily represented by quantum and critical Casimir effects, play a pivotal role at the nanoscale. This review explores the theoretical and experimental landscapes of these forces, offering a comprehensive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Roberto Passante , Lucia Rizzuto , Peter Schall , Emanuele Marino

Depending on the point of view, the Casimir force arises from variation in the energy of the quantum vacuum as boundary conditions are altered or as an interaction between atoms in the materials that form these boundary conditions. Standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 S. S. Chabysheva , J. R. Hiller

We study the dynamics of a driven optomechanical cavity coupled to a charged nanomechanical resonator via Coulomb interaction, in which the tunable double optomechanically induced transparency (OMIT) can be observed from the output field at…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-22 Peng-Cheng Ma , Jian-Qi Zhang , Yin Xiao , Mang Feng , Zhi-Ming Zhang

Several experimental demonstrations of the Casimir force between two closely spaced bodies have been realized over the past two decades. Extending the theory to incorporate the behavior of the force between two superconducting films close…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Richard A. Norte , Moritz Forsch , Andreas Wallucks , Igor Marinkovic , Simon Gröblacher

In discussions of the cosmological constant, the Casimir effect is often invoked as decisive evidence that the zero point energies of quantum fields are "real''. On the contrary, Casimir effects can be formulated and Casimir forces can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 R. L. Jaffe

Vacuum fluctuations have observable consequences, like the Casimir force appearing between two mirrors in vacuum. This force is now measured with good accuracy and agreement with theory. We discuss the meaning and consequences of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cyriaque Genet , Astrid Lambrecht , Serge Reynaud

In contrast to the optomechanically induced transparency (OMIT) defined conventionally, the inverse OMIT behaves as coherent absorption of the input lights in the optomechanical systems. We characterize a feasible inverse OMIT in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 Qin Wu , Jian-Qi Zhang , Jin-Hui Wu , Mang Feng , Zhi-Ming Zhang

It has been speculated that the zero-point energy of the vacuum, regularized due to the existence of a suitable ultraviolet cut-off scale, could be the source of the non-vanishing cosmological constant that is driving the present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gaurang Mahajan , Sudipta Sarkar , T. Padmanabhan

Quantum fluctuations give rise to van der Waals and Casimir forces that dominate the interaction between electrically neutral objects at sub-micron separations. Under the trend of miniaturization, such quantum electrodynamical effects are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-20 J. Zou , Z. Marcet , A. W. Rodriguez , M. T. H. Reid , A. P. McCauley , I. I. Kravchenko , T. Lu , Y. Bao , S. G. Johnson , H. B. Chan

The Casimir force between uncharged metallic surfaces originates from quantum mechanical zero point fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. We demonstrate that this quantum electrodynamical effect has a profound influence on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. B. Chan , V. A. Aksyuk , R. N. Kleiman , D. J. Bishop , Federico Capasso

We investigate, in the context of a real massless scalar field in $1+1$ dimensions, models of partially reflecting mirrors simulated by Dirac $\delta-\delta^{\prime}$ point interactions. In the literature, these models do not exhibit full…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Alessandra N. Braga , Jeferson Danilo L. Silva , Danilo T. Alves