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We consider the Casimir effect in a (1+1)-dimensional model with a critical mode. Such a mode gives rise to a condensate described by the nonlinear Gross-Pitaevskii equation. In the condensate, there are two sources of the Casimir force;…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 M. Bordag , I. G. Pirozhenko

The linear momentum and angular momentum of virtual photons of quantum vacuum fluctuations can induce the Casimir force and the Casimir torque, respectively. While the Casimir force has been measured extensively, the Casimir torque has not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-29 Zhujing Xu , Tongcang Li

We investigate the Casimir pressure between two parallel plates made of magnetic materials at nonzero temperature. It is shown that for real magnetodielectric materials only the magnetic properties of ferromagnets can influence the Casimir…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. L. Klimchitskaya , B. Geyer , V. M. Mostepanenko

Although Casimir forces are inseparable from their fluctuations, little is known about these fluctuations in soft matter systems. We use the membrane stress tensor to study the fluctuations of the membrane-mediated Casimir-like force. This…

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

We predict the existence of a torque acting on an isotropic neutral nanosphere activated by a static magnetic field when the particle temperature differs from the surrounding vacuum. This phenomenon originates in time-reversal symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Deng Pan , Hongxing Xu , F. Javier García de Abajo

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

The Casimir force due to a scalar field on a piston in a cylinder of radius $r$ with a spherical cap of radius $R>r$ is computed numerically in the world-line approach. A geometrical subtraction scheme gives the finite interaction energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Martin Schaden

One of the most important and still unresolved problems in the field of dispersion forces, is that of determining the influence of temperature on the Casimir force between two metallic plates. While alternative theoretical approaches lead…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-10 Giuseppe Bimonte

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 new exact formulas for the attractive Casimir force acting on each of the two perfectly conducting plates moving freely inside an infinite perfectly conducting cylinder with the same cross section are derived at zero and finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Valery N. Marachevsky

We develop a formalism for the calculation of the flow of angular momentum carried by the fluctuating electromagnetic field within a cavity bounded by two flat anisotropic materials. By generalizing a procedure employed recently for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 José C. Torres-Guzmán , W. Luis Mochán

We consider the Casimir interaction between a cylinder and a hollow cylinder, both conducting, with parallel axis and slightly different radii. The Casimir force, which vanishes in the coaxial situation, is evaluated for both small and…

The Casimir force, which results from the confinement of the quantum mechanical zero-point fluctuations of the electromagnetic fields, has received significant attention in recent years for its effect on micro- and nano-scale mechanical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. N. Munday , Federico Capasso

We give a comprehensive presentation of methods for calculating the Casimir force to arbitrary accuracy, for any number of objects, arbitrary shapes, susceptibility functions, and separations. The technique is applicable to objects immersed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-23 Sahand Jamal Rahi , Thorsten Emig , Noah Graham , Robert L. Jaffe , Mehran Kardar

While techniques to compute thermal fluctuation induced, or pseudo-Casimir, forces in equilibrium systems are well established, the same is not true for non-equilibrium cases. We present a general formalism that allows us to unambiguously…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-10 David S. Dean , Ajay Gopinathan

In this letter we consider the fluctuation induced force exerted between two plates separated by a distance $L$ in a fluid with a temperature gradient. We predict that, for a range of distances $L$, this non-equilibrium force is anomalously…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-13 T. R. Kirkpatrick , J. M. Ortiz de Zárate , J. V. Sengers

We theoretically study the Casimir-Polder force on an atom in a arbitrary initial state in a rather general electromagnetic environment wherein the materials may have a nonreciprocal bianisotropic dispersive response. It is shown that under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Mário G. Silveirinha , S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj , George W. Hanson , Mauro Antezza

We provide a review of both new experimental and theoretical developments in the Casimir effect. The Casimir effect results from the alteration by the boundaries of the zero-point electromagnetic energy. Unique to the Casimir force is its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bordag , U. Mohideen , V. M. Mostepanenko

The principles of the electromagnetic fluctuation-induced phenomena such as Casimir forces are well understood. However, recent experimental advances require universal and efficient methods to compute these forces. While several approaches…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-17 Giuseppe Bimonte , Thorsten Emig

The Casimir force between a pair of parallell plates filled with ionic particles is considered. We use a statistical mechanical approach and consider the classical high temperature limit. In this limit the ideal metal result with no…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-18 J. S. Høye