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We study the Casimir effect in the vicinity of a quantum critical point. As a prototypical system we analyze the $d$-dimensional imperfect (mean-field) Bose gas enclosed in a slab of extension $L^{d-1}\times D$ and subject to periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-08 P. Jakubczyk , M. Napiórkowski , T. Sęk

We apply the result of Kenneth and I. Klich, Phys. Rev. Lett.97, 160401 (2006) to derive a theorem for two objects coupled to a Dirac field. We demonstrate that a sufficient condition for the Casimir interaction to be repulsive, is for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-17 Aitor Fernández , César D. Fosco , Guillermo Hansen

The Casimir effect giving rise to an attractive force between the configuration boundaries that confine the massless scalar field is rigorously proven for odd dimensional hypercube with the Dirichlet boundary conditions and different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Xin-zhou Li , Xiang-hua Zhai

We predict that a low-permittivity oblate body (disk-shaped object) above a thin metal substrate (plate with a hole) immersed in a fluidof intermediate permittivity will experience a meta-stable equilibrium (restoring force) near the center…

We develop an exact method for computing the Casimir energy between arbitrary compact objects, both with boundary conditions for a scalar field and dielectrics or perfect conductors for the electromagnetic field. The energy is obtained as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Emig , R. L. Jaffe

We consider a massless scalar field obeying Dirichlet boundary conditions on the walls of a two-dimensional L x b rectangular box, divided by a movable partition (piston) into two compartments of dimensions a x b and (L-a) x b. We compute…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. M. Cavalcanti

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

We discuss the scalar analogue of the Casimir-Polder force between a sphere and a uniaxially corrugated surface with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Presenting a formulation that is nonperturbative in the height profile of the surface, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Babette Döbrich , Maarten DeKieviet , Holger Gies

When massless excitations are limited or modified by the presence of material bodies one observes a force acting between them generally called Casimir force. Such excitations are present in any fluid system close to its true bulk critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-05 Daniel M Dantchev , Vassil M Vassilev , Peter A Djondjorov

We investigate the Dirichlet-scalar equivalent of Casimir-Polder forces between an atom and a surface with arbitrary uniaxial corrugations. The complexity of the problem can be reduced to a one-dimensional Green's function equation along…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Babette Döbrich , Maarten DeKieviet , Holger Gies

We study Casimir forces on the partition in a closed box (piston) with perfect metallic boundary conditions. Related closed geometries have generated interest as candidates for a repulsive force. By using an optical path expansion we solve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. P. Hertzberg , R. L. Jaffe , M. Kardar , A. Scardicchio

We derive exact expressions for the Casimir scalar interaction energy between media-separated eccentric dielectric cylinders and for the media-separated cylinder-plane geometry using a mode-summation approach. Similarly to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-28 F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli , P. I. Villar , D. A. R. Dalvit

In this paper, the Casimir effect for parallel plates in the presence of one compactified universal extra dimension is reexamined in detail. Having regularized the expressions of Casimir force, we show that the nature of Casimir force is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Hongbo Cheng

Achieving strong repulsive Casimir forces through engineered coatings can pave the way for micro- and nano-electromechanical applications where adhesive forces currently cause reliability issues. Here, we exploit Lifshitz theory to identify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Zhou Li , Chinmay Khandekar

We compute the Casimir force for a system composed of two layers as substrates within three different homogenous layers. We use the scattering approach along with the Matsubara formalism in order to calculate the Casimir force at finite…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-30 A. Moradian , M. R. Setare , S. A. Seyedzahedi

I show that cooperative exclusion processes with selective kinetic constraints exhibit fluctuation-induced forces that can be attractive or repulsive, depending on the density of boundary reservoirs, when their density-dependent diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 Mauro Sellitto

We use the extended Lifshitz theory to study the behaviors of the Casimir forces between finite-thickness effective medium slabs. We first study the interaction between a semi-infinite Drude metal and a finite-thickness magnetic slab with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 R. Zhao , Th. Koschny , E. N. Economou , C. M. Soukoulis

We study the classical thermal component of Casimir, or van der Waals, forces between point particles with highly anharmonic dipole Hamiltonians when they are subjected to an external electric field. Using a model for which the individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Heino Soo , David Dean , Matthias Krüger

We have measured the short-range attractive force between crystalline Ge plates, and found contributions from both the Casimir force and an electrical force possibly generated by surface patch potentials. Using a model of surface patch…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 W. J. Kim , A. O. Sushkov , D. A. R. Dalvit , S. K. Lamoreaux

When one studies the Casimir effect, the periodic (anti-periodic) boundary condition is usually taken to mimic a periodic (anti-periodic) structure for a scalar field living in a flat space with a non-Euclidean topology. However, there…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-07 Chao-Jun Feng , Xin-Zhou Li , Xiang-Hua Zhai