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If a fluctuating medium is confined, the ensuing perturbation of its fluctuation spectrum generates Casimir-like effective forces acting on its confining surfaces. Near a continuous phase transition of such a medium the corresponding order…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-15 A. Gambassi , A. Maciolek , C. Hertlein , U. Nellen , L. Helden , C. Bechinger , S. Dietrich

We show that the Casimir force gradient can be quantitatively measured with no contact involved. Results of the Casimir force measurement with systematic uncertainty of 3% are presented for the distance range of 100-600 nm. The statistical…

General Physics · Physics 2007-12-12 Guillaume Jourdan , Astrid Lambrecht , Fabio Comin , Joël Chevrier

Quantum mechanics predicts the occurrence of random electromagnetic field fluctuations, or virtual photons, in vacuum. The exchange of virtual photons between two bodies in relative motion could lead to non-contact quantum vacuum friction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Zhujing Xu , Peng Ju , Kunhong Shen , Yuanbin Jin , Zubin Jacob , Tongcang Li

We compute an analog Casimir effect in a one-dimensional spinless Luttinger liquid confined to a segment in the presence of a nearly-impenetrable partition dividing the segment into two compartments. The Casimir interaction is found to be a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Eugene B. Kolomeisky , Joseph P. Straley , Michael Timmins

In this study, we have derived close form of the Casimir force for the non-interacting ideal Bose gas between two slabs in harmonic-optical lattice potential by using Ketterle and van Druten approximation. We find that Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 Ekrem Aydiner

In this talk I review various developments in the past year concerning quantum vacuum energy, the Casimir effect. In particular, there has been continuing controversy surrounding the temperature correction to the Lifshitz formula for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-05-12 K. A. Milton

Dynamical backaction has proven to be a versatile tool in cavity optomechanics, allowing for precise manipulation of a mechanical resonator's motion using confined optical photons. In this work, we present measurements of a silicon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 B. D. Hauer , T. J. Clark , P. H. Kim , C. Doolin , J. P. Davis

The Casimir force - at first a rather unexpected consequence of quantum electrodynamics - was discovered by Hendrik Casimir in Eindhoven in 1948. It predicts that two uncharged metal plates experience an attractive force because of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 Iver Brevik , Johan S. Høye

A recent experiment [J. L. Garrett, D. A. T. Somers, and J. N. Munday, Phys. Rev. Lett {\bf 120}, 040401 (2018)] measured for the first time the gradient of the Casimir force between two gold spheres in vacuum at room temperature, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-12 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

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

The Casimir effect, a two-body interaction via vacuum fluctuations, is a fundamental property of quantum systems. In solid state physics it emerges as a long-range interaction between two impurity atoms via virtual phonons. In the classical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-07 Andrei I. Pavlov , Jeroen van den Brink , Dmitri V. Efremov

We report on measurements of the Casimir force in a sphere-plane geometry using a cryogenic force microscope to move the force probe in situ over different materials. We show how the electrostatic environment of the interacting surfaces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-30 J. Laurent , H. Sellier , A. Mosset , S. Huant , J. Chevrier

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

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…

We describe a Casimir setup consisting of two aligned sinusoidally corrugated Ni surfaces, one of which is "hidden" by a thin opaque layer of gold with a flat exposed surface. The gold layer acts as a low-pass filter that allows for a clean…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-20 Giuseppe Bimonte

The new approach to the theoretical description of the thermal Casimir force between real metals is presented. It uses the plasma-like dielectric permittivity that takes into account the interband transitions of core electrons. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. M. Mostepanenko , B. Geyer

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

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-27 Daniel M. Dantchev , Vassil M. Vassilev , Peter A. Djondjorov

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

A multiple scattering formulation is used to calculate the force, arising from fluctuating scalar fields, between distinct bodies described by $\delta$-function potentials, so-called semitransparent bodies. (In the limit of strong coupling,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kimball A. Milton , Jef Wagner