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We investigate the behavior of the nonresonant Casimir-Polder force acting on a metastable polarized state of a two-level atomic system with a right-circularly polarized electric dipole transition in the presence of a monolayer topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Bing-Sui Lu

Topological insulators are found in materials that have elements with strong spin orbit interaction. However, electron Coulomb repulsion also potentially generates the topological insulators as well as Chern insulators by the mechanism of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-01 Masatoshi Imada , Youhei Yamaji , Moyuru Kurita

We review recent developments in the Casimir effect which arises in quantization volumes restricted by material boundaries and in spaces with non-Euclidean topology. The starting point of our discussion is the novel exact solution for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 V. M. Mostepanenko

Two thin conducting, electrically neutral, parallel plates forming an isolated system in vacuum exert attracting force on each other, whose origin is the quantum electrodynamical interaction. This theoretical hypothesis, known as Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrzej Herdegen

We give an example of a geometry in which two metallic objects in vacuum experience a repulsive Casimir force. The geometry consists of an elongated metal particle centered above a metal plate with a hole. We prove that this geometry has a…

Casimir and Casimir-Polder repulsion have been known for more than 50 years. The general "Lifshitz" configuration of parallel semi-infinite dielectric slabs permits repulsion if they are separated by a dielectric fluid that has a value of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-09 Kimball A. Milton , E. K. Abalo , Prachi Parashar , Nima Pourtolami , Iver Brevik , Simen A. Ellingsen

The interplay between topology and electronic correlation effects offers a rich avenue for discovering emergent quantum phenomena in condensed matter systems. In this work, starting from the Weyl-Hubbard model, we investigate the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-16 Snehasish Nandy , Christopher Lane , Jian-Xin Zhu

Nontrivial topology in condensed matter systems enriches quantum states of matter, to go beyond either the classification into metals and insulators in terms of conventional band theory or that of symmetry broken phases by Landau's order…

Casimir effect is the attractive force which acts between two plane parallel, closely spaced, uncharged, metallic plates in vacuum. This phenomenon was predicted theoretically in 1948 and reliably investigated experimentally only in recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

The Casimir-Lifshitz interaction between metamaterials is studied using a model that takes into account the structural heterogeneity of the dielectric and magnetic properties of the bodies. A recently developed perturbation theory for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Arash Azari , MirFaez Miri , Ramin Golestanian

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

In this study, we examine the role of the repulsive Casimir force in counteracting the gravitational contraction of a thin spherically symmetric shell. Our main focus is to explore the possibility of achieving a stable balanced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-11 Leonardo Bellinato Giacomelli , Benjamin Koch , Iva Lovrekovic , Angel Rincon

We consider the problem of modeling of interaction of thin material films with fields of quantum electrodynamics. Taking into account the basic principles of quantum electrodynamics (locality, gauge invariance, renormalizability) we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 V. N. Markov , Yu. M. Pis'mak

The Casimir effect, arising from vacuum quantum fluctuations, plays a fundamental role in the development of modern quantum electrodynamics. In parallel, the field of condensed matter has flourished through the discovery of various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Zixuan Dai , Qing-Dong Jiang

We discuss repulsive Casimir forces between dielectric materials with non trivial magnetic susceptibility. It is shown that considerations based on naive pair-wise summation of Van der Waals and Casimir Polder forces may not only give an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Kenneth , I. Klich , A. Mann , M. Revzen

We propose a realization of the Weyl semimetal phase that is invariant under time reversal and occurs due to broken inversion symmetry. We consider both a simple superlattice model and a more realistic tight-binding model describing an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 Gábor B. Halász , Leon Balents

For the solid state physics, recent interest to topological systems is mostly connected with topological semimetals, in particular, to Weyl ones as the most representative semimetal type. Like other topological materials, e.g. topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 E. V. Deviatov

Casimir-Lifshitz interaction emerging from relative movement of layers in stratified dielectric media (e.g., non-uniformly moving fluids) is considered. It is shown that such movement may result in a repulsive Casimir-Lifshitz force exerted…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Stanislav I. Maslovski

The Casimir effect arises from the zero-point energy of particles in momentum space deformed by the existence of two parallel plates. For degrees of freedom on the lattice, its energy-momentum dispersion is determined so as to keep a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-06-15 Tsutomu Ishikawa , Katsumasa Nakayama , Kei Suzuki

We study amorphous systems with completely random sites and find that, through constructing and exploring a concrete model Hamiltonian, such a system can host an exotic phase of topological amorphous metal in three dimensions. In contrast…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Yan-Bin Yang , Tao Qin , Dong-Ling Deng , L. -M. Duan , Yong Xu