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The Casimir effect describes the attractive force arising due to quantum fluctuations of the vacuum electromagnetic field between closely spaced conducting plates. Traditionally, zeta-regularization is employed in calculations to address…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Ching-Hsuan Yen

We numerically study a two-dimensional granular gas of rigid disks where an external driving force is applied to each particle in such a way that the system is driven into a steady state by balancing the energy input and the dissipation due…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-13 M. Reza Shaebani , Jalal Sarabadani

The force experienced by objects embedded in a correlated medium undergoing thermal fluctuations--the so-called fluctuation--induced force--is actually itself a fluctuating quantity. We compute the corresponding probability distribution and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Denis Bartolo , Armand Ajdari , Jean-Baptiste Fournier , Ramin Golestanian

The Casimir effect, originating from quantum and thermal fluctuations, is well known for inducing forces between closely spaced surfaces. When these surfaces are optically anisotropic, these interactions can produce a Casimir torque that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Benjamin Spreng , Jeremy N. Munday

We study a Casimir-like behaviour in a "deformed QCD". We demonstrate that for the system defined on a manifold of size L the difference Delta E between the energies of a system in a non-trivial background and Minkowski space-time geometry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Evan Thomas , Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

The temperature dependence of the Casimir effect for the radiation field confined between two conducting plates is analysed. The Casimir energy is shown to decline exponentially with temperature while the Casimir entropy which is defined in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Revzen , A. Mann

After a review of the standard calculation of the Casimir force between two metallic plates at zero and non-zero temperatures, we present the study of microscopic models to determine the large-distance asymptotic force in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 Ph. A. Martin , P. R. Buenzli

This paper presents a new method for the efficient numerical computation of Casimir interactions between objects of arbitrary geometries, composed of materials with arbitrary frequency-dependent electrical properties. Our method formulates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 M. T. Homer Reid , Jacob White , Steven G. Johnson

The Casimir force is a spectacular consequence of the existence of vacuum fluctuations and thus deserves a place in courses on quantum theory. We argue that the scattering approach within a one-dimensional field theory is well suited to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-28 Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Astrid Lambrecht

The Casimir effect, which predicts the emergence of an attractive force between two parallel, highly reflecting plates in vacuum, plays a vital role in various fields of physics, from quantum field theory and cosmology to nanophotonics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Daniel Hodgson , Christopher Burgess , M. Basil Altaie , Almut Beige , Robert Purdy

The Casimir-Lifhitz force acts between neutral material bodies and is due to the fluctuations (around zero) of the electrical polarizations of the bodies. This force is a macroscopic manifestation of the van der Waals forces between atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-28 Iver Brevik , Boris Shapiro

The Casimir effect is a physical manifestation of zero point energy of quantum vacuum. In a relativistic quantum field theory, Poincar\'e symmetry of the theory seems, at first sight, to imply that non-zero vacuum energy is inconsistent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Takamaru Akita , Mamoru Matsunaga

We study the quantum and thermal fluctuations of eddy (Foucault) currents in thick metallic plates. A Casimir interaction between two plates arises from the coupling via quasi-static magnetic fields. As a function of distance, the relevant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 Francesco Intravaia , Carsten Henkel

Zero-point fluctuations in quantum fields give rise to observable forces between material bodies, the so-called Casimir forces. In this lecture I present some results of the theory of the Casimir effect, primarily formulated in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Kimball A. Milton

We demonstrate that Casimir forces associated with zero-point fluctuations of quantum vacuum may be substantially affected by the presence of dynamical topological defects. In order to illustrate this nonperturbative effect we study the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-04-26 M. N. Chernodub , V. A. Goy , A. V. Molochkov

We have presented an analytic theory for the Casimir force on a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) which is confined between two parallel plates. We have considered Dirichlet boundary conditions for the condensate wave function as well as for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-08 Shyamal Biswas , J. K. Bhattacharjee , Dwipesh Majumder , Kush Saha , Nabajit Chakravarty

Strongly correlated quantum matter -- such as interacting electron systems or interacting quantum fluids -- possesses properties that cannot be understood in terms of linear fluctuations and free quasi-particles. Quantum fluctuations in…

According to the experimentally observed theory of the static Casimir effect, two metal, uncharged, conductive and flat plates attract each other in vacuum >.Herein, equations of motion of the plates which are influenced by Casimir…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mohammad Mansouryar

The Phononic Casimir effect between planar objects is investigated by deriving a formalism from the quantum partition function of the system following multiscattering approach. This fluctuation-induced coupling is mediated by phonons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Dai-Nam Le , Lilia M. Woods

The fluctuating hydrodynamics by Brey et. al. is analytically solved to get the long-time limit of the fluctuations of the number density, velocity field, and energy density around the homogeneous cooling state of a granular gas, under…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-27 Jesús David Jiménez Oliva , Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Nagi Khalil