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The Casimir effect describes the attractive force arising due to quantum fluctuations of the vacuum electromagnetic field between closely spaced conducting plates. Traditionally, zeta-regularization is employed in calculations to address…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Ching-Hsuan Yen

In a recent paper [1] the Casimir energy was calculated for a massive dirac field in (1+1) dimensional space-time in the presence of an inverse square well potential and shown to be positive. It will be shown that this result violates a key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-05 Dan Solomon

The Casimir effect for parallel plates satisfying the Dirichlet boundary condition in the context of effective QED coming from a six-dimensional Nielsen-Olesen vortex solution of the Abelian Higgs model with fermions coupled to gravity is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-26 Hongbo Cheng

Temporal modulation of the quantum vacuum through fast motion of a neutral body or fast changes of its optical properties is known to promote virtual into real photons, the so-called dynamical Casimir effect. Empowering modulation protocols…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Diego A. R. Dalvit , Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp

Vacuum fluctuations are a fundamental and irremovable property of a quantized electromagnetic field. These fluctuations are the cause of the Casimir effect -- mutual attraction of two electrically neutral metallic plates in vacuum in the…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-23 Mikhail Krasnov , Arslan Mazitov , Nikita Orekhov , Denis G. Baranov

We review modern achievements and problems in physics of the van der Waals and Casimir forces which arise due to zero-point and thermal fluctuations of the electromagnetic field between closely spaced material surfaces. This subject…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

The Casimir effect, originating from quantum and thermal fluctuations, is well known for inducing forces between closely spaced surfaces. When these surfaces are optically anisotropic, these interactions can produce a Casimir torque that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Benjamin Spreng , Jeremy N. Munday

Interactions induced by electromagnetic fluctuations, such as van der Waals and Casimir forces, are of universal nature present at any length scale between any types of systems with finite dimensions. Such interactions are important not…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-23 L. M. Woods , D. A. R. Dalvit , A. Tkatchenko , P. Rodriguez-Lopez , A. W. Rodriguez , R. Podgornik

We apply the background field method and the effective action formalism to describe the four-dimensional dynamical Casimir effect. Our picture corresponds to the consideration of quantum cosmology for an expanding FRW universe (the boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-14 I. Brevik , K. A. Milton , S. D. Odintsov , K. E. Osetrin

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 consider the minimal coupling of a thin film Dirac semimetal Hamiltonian to a generic spin-texture. A simple unitary transformation gauges away the spatial dependence in the exchange term, leading to the generation of effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Pritam Chatterjee , Anirudha Menon

We consider particle creation (the Dynamical Casimir effect) in a uniformly contracting ideal one-dimensional cavity non-perturbatively. The exact expression for the energy spectrum of created particles is obtained and its dependence on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. M. Fedotov , Yu. E. Lozovik , N. B. Narozhny , A. N. Petrosyan

Real photon pairs can be created in a dynamic cavity with periodically modulated refractive index of the constituent media or oscillating boundaries. This effect is called Dynamic Casimir effect (DCE), which represents one of the most…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-06 Shaojie Ma , Haixing Miao , Yuanjiang Xiang , Shuang Zhang

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

The chiral magnetic effect is a phenomenon where an electromagnetic current is generated along a magnetic field. Recently, in nonequilibrium systems, negative longitudinal magnetoresistance has been observed experimentally in Dirac/Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Yohei Ibe , Hiroaki Sumiyoshi

In discussions of the cosmological constant, the Casimir effect is often invoked as decisive evidence that the zero point energies of quantum fields are "real''. On the contrary, Casimir effects can be formulated and Casimir forces can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 R. L. Jaffe

Within the framework of the Drude dispersive model, we predict an unusual non-monotonous temperature dependence of the Casimir force for thin metal films. For certain conditions, this force decreases with temperature due to the decrease of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. A. Yampol'skii , Sergey Savel'ev , Z. A. Mayselis , S. S. Apostolov , Franco Nori

Quantum fluctuations give rise to van der Waals and Casimir forces that dominate the interaction between electrically neutral objects at sub-micron separations. Under the trend of miniaturization, such quantum electrodynamical effects are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-20 J. Zou , Z. Marcet , A. W. Rodriguez , M. T. H. Reid , A. P. McCauley , I. I. Kravchenko , T. Lu , Y. Bao , S. G. Johnson , H. B. Chan

Recently, we have demonstrated that for a certain class of Casimir-type systems ("devices") the energy of zero-point vacuum fluctuations reaches its global minimum when the device rotates about a certain axis rather than remains static.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-12 M. N. Chernodub

When Casimir friction torque acts upon a rotated nanoparticle (NP), mechanical energy can be transformed into thermal energy, known as Casimir radiation, which significantly affects the thermal performance of nanoelectromechanical systems.…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-25 Yang Hu , Xiaohu Wu , Haotuo Liu , Mauro Antezza , Xiuquan Huang
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