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We obtain expressions for the Casimir energy and force following an approach which may be applied to cavities made up of arbitrary materials. In the case of planar cavities we obtain the well known Lifshitz formula. The approach is easily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-24 W. Luis Mochan , Carlos Villarreal

Mainly on nano-scale, but maybe not exclusively, it can be imagined a spontaneous charge disjunction inside certain media due to the fluctuations, collisions, wall effects, radiation or/and other presently unknown interactions. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-22 Ferenc Markus , Mario Rocca , Katalin Gambar

The Casimir-Lifshitz interaction, a long-range force that arises between solids and molecules due to quantum fluctuations in electromagnetic fields, has been widely studied in solid-state physics. The degree of polarization in this…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-01 M. Boström , M. Rizwan Khan , H. R. Gopidi , I. Brevik , Y. Li , C. Persson , O. I. Malyi

The zero-temperature Casimir-Lifshitz force between two plates moving parallel to each other at arbitrary constant speed was found in [New J. Phys. 11, 033035 (2009)]. The solution is here generalized to the case where the plates are at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-11 T. G. Philbin , U. Leonhardt

We argue that the results for the vacuum forces on a slab and on an atom embedded in a magnetodielectric medium near a mirror, obtained using a recently suggested Lorentz-force approach to the Casimir effect, are equivalent to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. S. Tomas

The premetric approach to electrodynamics provides a unified description of a wide class of electromagnetic phenomena. In particular, it involves axion, dilaton and skewon modifications of the classical electrodynamics. This formalism…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Yakov Itin

We consider two inverse boundary value problems for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations in an infinite slab. Assuming that tangential boundary data for the electric and magnetic fields at a fixed frequency is available either on subsets of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Monika Pichler

We predict the existence of lateral drag forces near the flat surface of an absorbing slab of an anisotropic material. The forces originate from the fluctuations of the electromagnetic field, when the anisotropy axis of the material forms a…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-11 Igor S. Nefedov , J. Miguel Rubi

We apply the method of slowly-varying amplitudes of the electrical and magnet fields to integro-differential system of nonlinear Maxwell equations. The equations are reduced to system of differential Nonlinear Maxwell amplitude Equations…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Lubomir M. Kovachev

This paper is devoted to Maxwell modes in three-dimensional bounded electromagnetic cavities that have the form of a product of lower dimensional domains in some system of coordinates. The boundary conditions are those of the perfectly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 Martin Costabel , Monique Dauge

The focus of this paper is the study of the regularity properties of the time harmonic Maxwell's equations with anisotropic complex coefficients, in a bounded domain with $C^{1,1}$ boundary. We assume that at least one of the material…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-19 Giovanni S. Alberti , Yves Capdeboscq

We calculate the Casimir forces in two configurations, namely, three parallel dielectric slabs and a dielectric slab between two perfectly conducting plates, where the dielectric materials are dispersive and inhomogeneous in the direction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-19 Yang Li , Kimball A. Milton , Xin Guo , Gerard Kennedy , Stephen A. Fulling

We rigorously derive a Blake-Zisserman-Kirchhoff theory for thin plates with material voids, starting from a three-dimensional model with elastic bulk and interfacial energy featuring a Willmore-type curvature penalization. The effective…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Manuel Friedrich , Leonard Kreutz , Konstantinos Zemas

The equations for the electromagnetic field in an anisotropic media are written in a form containing only the transverse field components relative to a half plane boundary. The operator corresponding to this formulation is the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-08-11 B. L. G. Jonsson

We theoretically investigate the combined effects of the chirality and the finite total thickness of nematic cholesteric liquid crystals on the Casimir-Lifshitz torque. We find that, the larger the thickness, the more sinusoidal the angular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Wijnand Broer , Rudolf Podgornik

We calculate the energy-momentum tensor due to electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations between two parallel hyperplanes in more than four dimensions, considering both metallic and MIT boundary conditions. Using the axial gauge, the problem can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Alnes , K. Olaussen , F. Ravndal , I. K. Wehus

We analyse wave propagation in two-dimensional bianisotropic media with the Finite Element Method (FEM). We start from the Maxwell-Tellegen's equations in bianisotropic media, and derive some system of coupled Partial Difference Equations…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-21 Yan Liu , Boris Gralak , Sebastien Guenneau

The goal of this work is to study the electromagnetic scattering problem of time-domain Maxwell's equations in an unbounded structure. An exact transparent boundary condition is developed to reformulate the scattering problem into an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Yixian Gao , Peijun Li

We investigate the Casimir effect for parallel plates within the framework of Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz theory in $3+1$ dimensions, considering the effects of roughness, anisotropic scaling factor, and an uniform constant magnetic field. Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-10 Byron Droguett , Claudio Bórquez

We derive basic equations of electromagnetic fields in fractal media which are specified by three indepedent fractal dimensions {\alpha}_{i} in the respective directions x_{i} (i=1,2,3) of the Cartesian space in which the fractal is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Martin Ostoja-Starzewski