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The Casimir effect for parallel plates in the presence of compactified universal extra dimensions within the frame of Kaluza-Klein theory is analyzed. Having regularized and discussed the expressions of Casimir force in the limit, we show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hongbo Cheng

The possibility in principle is shown that the noncompensated Casimir force can exist in nanosized open metal cavities. The force shows up as time-constant expulsion of open cavities toward their least opening. The optimal parameters of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-02 Evgeny G. Fateev

We derive upper and lower bounds on the Casimir--Polder force between an anisotropic dipolar body and a macroscopic body separated by vacuum via algebraic properties of Maxwell's equations. These bounds require only a coarse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Prashanth S. Venkataram , Sean Molesky , Pengning Chao , Alejandro W. Rodriguez

Spatial confinement of a near-critical medium changes its fluctuation spectrum and modifies the corresponding order parameter distribution. These effects result in effective, so-called critical Casimir forces (CCFs) acting on the confining…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-03-24 T. F. Mohry , S. Kondrat , A. Maciolek , S. Dietrich

The Casimir effect in a dispersive and absorbing multilayered system is considered adopting the (net) vacuum-field pressure point of view to the Casimir force. Using the properties of the macroscopic field operators appropriate for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. S. Tomas

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

Using general scaling arguments combined with mean-field theory we investigate the critical ($T \simeq T_c$) and off-critical ($T\ne T_c$) behavior of the Casimir forces in fluid films of thickness $L$ governed by dispersion forces and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Dantchev , Frank Schlesener , S. Dietrich

The Casimir effect, the dispersion force attracting neutral objects to each other, may be understood in terms of multiple scattering of light between the interacting bodies. We explore the simple model in which the bodies are assumed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Simen Å. Ellingsen

We investigate the forces exerted on embedded inclusions by a fluid medium with long-range correlations, described by an effective scalar field theory. Such forces are the basis for the medium-mediated Casimir-like force. To study these…

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

Casimir physics covers a wealth of phenomena where forces between macroscopic objects are induced by long range fluctuations of either classical or quantum origin. Fluctuations of the quantum electrodynamic vacuum epitomize this type of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Ariane Soret , Karyn Le Hur , Eric Akkermans

There is the possibility in principle that the noncompensated Casimir force exists in open nanosized metal cavities arranged in the form of periodic structures. It is found that when trapezoid cavities are strictly periodic all the Casimir…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 Evgeny G. Fateev

We study theoretically and experimentally the solvent-mediated critical Casimir force acting on colloidal particles immersed in a binary liquid mixture of water and 2,6-lutidine and close to substrates which are chemically patterned with…

Whether intentionally introduced to exert control over particles and macroscopic objects, such as for trapping or cooling, or whether arising from the quantum and thermal fluctuations of charges in otherwise neutral bodies, leading to…

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

We consider a system consisting of a quantum, massless, real scalar field, in the presence of nonlinear mirrors: infinite parallel planes, upon which the field satisfies nonlinear boundary conditions. The latter are implemented by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-30 C. D. Fosco , L. E. Oxman

We investigate the phase behaviour of mixtures of two populations of colloidal particles dispersed in a binary solvent system near its critical composition. The surfaces of particles are chemically modified to elicit a specific solvent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-16 T. E. Kodger , N. Farahmand Bafi , M. Labbé-Laurent , E. Steijlen , A. Maciolek , P. Schall

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 study thermal, fluctuation-induced hydrodynamic interaction forces in a classical, compressible, viscous fluid confined between two rigid, planar walls with no-slip boundary conditions. We calculate hydrodynamic fluctuations using the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-24 Chris Monahan , Ali Naji , Ron Horgan , Bing-Sui Lu , Rudi Podgornik

The Casimir force between macroscopic bodies is well understood, but not the Casimir stress inside bodies. Suppose empty space or a uniform medium meets a soft wall where the refractive index is continuous but its derivative jumps. For this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Itay Griniasty , Ulf Leonhardt

The Casimir force follows from quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field and yields a nonlinear attractive force between closely spaced conductive objects. Measuring the Casimir force in superconducting materials on either side of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Matthijs H. J. de Jong , Evren Korkmazgil , Louise Banniard , Mika A. Sillanpää , Laure Mercier de Lépinay