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The dependence of the Casimir force on material properties is important for both future applications and to gain further insight on its fundamental aspects. Here we derive a general theory of the Casimir force for low-conducting compounds,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. G. Galkina , B. A. Ivanov , Sergey E. Savel'ev , V. A. Yampol'skii , Franco Nori

We report an improved dynamic determination of the Casimir pressure between two plane plates obtained using a micromachined torsional oscillator. The main improvements in the current experiment are a significant suppression of the surface…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. S. Decca , D. Lopez , E. Fischbach , G. L. Klimchitskaya , D. E. Krause , V. M. Mostepanenko

We discuss recent experimental and theoretical results on the Casimir force between real material bodies made of different materials. Special attention is paid to calculations of the normal Casimir force acting perpendicular to the surface…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-10 G. L. Klimchitskaya

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 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

The Casimir Effect is a physical manifestation of quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic vacuum. When two metal plates are placed closely together, typically much less than a micron, the long wavelength modes between them are frozen…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Alexander Stange , Matthias Imboden , Josh Javor , Lawrence K. Barrett , David J. Bishop

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

Strong coupling between vacuum fields and quantum matter occurs at the nanoscale and broadens the horizon of light-matter interaction. Nanoscale Casimir force, as an exhibition of vacuum fields, inevitably experiences the influence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Hewan Zhang , Kun Ding

We present supplementary information on the recent indirect measurement of the Casimir pressure between two parallel plates using a micromachined oscillator. The equivalent pressure between the plates is obtained by means of the proximity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. S. Decca , D. Lopez , E. Fischbach , G. L. Klimchitskaya , D. E. Krause , V. M. Mostepanenko

In this paper we theoretically demonstrate the tunability of the Casimir force both in sign and magnitude between parallel plates coated with dispersive materials. We show that this force, existing between uncharged plates, can be tuned by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Miguel Camacho , Tao Gong , Benjamin Spreng , Iñigo Liberal , Nader Engheta , Jeremy N. Munday

The Casimir Force, a quantum mechanical effect, has been observed in several microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) platforms. Due to its extreme sensitivity to the separation of two objects, the Casimir Force has been proposed as an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-24 Josh Javor , Zhancheng Yao , Matthias Imboden , David K. Campbell , David J. Bishop

We study the Casimir force between a nanoparticle and a substrate. We consider the interaction of metal nanoparticles with different substrates within the dipolar approximation. We study the force as a function of the distance for gold and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-15 C. E. Roman-Velazquez , Cecilia Noguez , C. Villarreal , R. Esquivel-Sirvent

In this work, we consider a torque caused by the well known quantum mechanical Casimir effect arising from quantized field fluctuations between plates with inhomogeneous, sharply discontinuous, dielectric properties. While the Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-18 William Long , Lucas Schuermann

Considering $CuO_{2}$ conducting layers present in high Tc superconductors as plasma sheets, we proposed a prescription for the $T_{c}$ pressure behavior taken into account the Casimir effect. The Casimir energy arises from these parallel…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-07-08 H. Belich , M. T. D. Orlando , T. Costa-Soares , E. M. Santos , L. J. Alves , J. M. Pires

For more than 35 years theorists have studied quantum or Casimir friction, which occurs when two smooth bodies move transversely to each other, experiencing a frictional dissipative force due to quantum electromagnetic fluctuations, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 K. A. Milton , J. S. Høye , I. Brevik

The presence of boundary surfaces in the vacuum alters the ground state of the quantized electromagnetic field and can lead to the appearance of vacuum forces. In the last decade, landmark measurements of the vacuum stress between…

General Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 G. Jordan Maclay

We study the influence of Casimir energy on the critical field of a superconducting film, and we show that by this means it might be possible to directly measure, for the first time, the variation of Casimir energy that accompanies the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Giuseppe Bimonte , Enrico Calloni , Giampiero Esposito , Luigi Rosa

High temperature superconductors have in common that they consist of parallel planes of copper oxide separated by layers whose composition can vary. Being ceramics, the cuprate superconductors are poor conductors above the transition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Achim Kempf

The Casimir effect refers to the existence of a macroscopic force between conducting plates in vacuum due to quantum fluctuations of fields. These forces play an important role, among other things, in the design of nano-scale mechanical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Dimitra Karabali

The Casimir force caused by the electromagnetic fluctuations is computed in the configurations of micro- and nanoelectromechanical pressuresensors using Si membranes and either Si or Au-coated Si substrates. It is shown that if, under the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 G. L. Klimchitskaya , A. S. Korotkov , V. V. Loboda , V. M. Mostepanenko