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We study the effects of the oscillating axion field present in our environment on the Casimir pressure between two metallic plates. We take into account the finite conductivity of the boundary plates and model the interactions between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-31 Philippe Brax , Pierre Brun

We present a new approach to calculate the attractive long range vortex-vortex interaction of the van der Waals type present in anisotropic and layered superconductors. The mapping of the statistical mechanics of vortex lines onto the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 H. G. Katzgraber , H. P. Büchler , G. Blatter

Controlling the skyrmion Hall effect (SkHE) is pivotal for developing topological spintronics but typically relies on magnetic field reversal. Here, we demonstrate a general strategy for the purely electrical switching of the SkHE in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-19 Wenhui Du , Kaiying Dou , Ying Dai , Zeyan Wang , Baibiao Huang , Yandong Ma

This paper presents a new method for the efficient numerical computation of Casimir interactions between objects of arbitrary geometries, composed of materials with arbitrary frequency-dependent electrical properties. Our method formulates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 M. T. Homer Reid , Jacob White , Steven G. Johnson

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

We exploit fluctuational electrodynamics to present trace expressions for the torque experienced by arbitrary objects in a passive, non-absorbing, rotationally invariant background environment. Specializing to a single object, this…

Casimir forces are a manifestation of the change in the zero-point energy of the vacuum caused by the insertion of boundaries. We show how the Casimir force can be computed by consideration of the vacuum fluctuations that are suppressed by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-13 Eugene B. Kolomeisky , Joseph P. Straley

The trace anomaly of conformal matter implies the existence of massless scalar poles in physical amplitudes involving the stress-energy tensor. These poles may be described by a local effective action with massless scalar fields, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-21 Emil Mottola

We introduce a useful approach to find asymptotically explicit expressions for the Casimir free energy at large temperature. The resulting expressions contain the classical terms as well as the few first terms of the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-18 Y. Koohsarian , K. Javidan

A perfectly reflecting (Dirichlet) boundary condition at the edge of an impenetrable magnetic-flux-carrying tube of nonzero transverse size is imposed on the charged massive scalar matter field which is quantized outside the tube on a plane…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-17 V. M. Gorkavenko , Yu. A. Sitenko , O. B. Stepanov

The Casimir effect arises not only in the presence of material boundaries but also in space with nontrivial topology. In this paper, we choose a topology of the flat $(D+1)$-dimensional spacetime, which causes the helix boundary condition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-13 Chao-Jun Feng , Xin-Zhou Li

Whereas the total energy in zero-point fluctuations of the particle physics vacuum gives rise to the cosmological constant problem, differences in the vacuum give rise to real physical phenomena, such as the Casimir effect. Hence we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. R. Caldwell

Altermagnetism has emerged as a third type of collinear magnetism. In contrast to standard ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, altermagnets exhibit extra even-parity wave spin order parameters resulting in a spin-splitting of electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-17 Valentin Leeb , Alexander Mook , Libor Šmejkal , Johannes Knolle

The classical laws of physics are usually invariant under time reversal. Here, we reveal a novel class of magnetomechanical effects rigorously breaking time-reversal symmetry. The effect is based on the mechanical rotation of a hard magnet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Elena Y. Vedmedenko , Roland Wiesendanger

We review and assess a part of the recent work on Casimir apparatuses in the weak gravitational field of the Earth. For a free, real massless scalar field subject to Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions on the parallel plates, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-19 Giuseppe Bimonte , Enrico Calloni , Giampiero Esposito , George M. Napolitano , Luigi Rosa

The Casimir effect is a quantum phenomenon rooted in the fact that vacuum fluctuations of quantum fields are affected by the presence of physical objects and boundaries. Since the energy spectrum of the vacuum fluctuations depends on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 M. N. Chernodub , V. A. Goy , A. V. Molochkov

We establish symmetry-based selection rules for the intrinsic nonlinear thermal Hall effect driven by the quantum metric in altermagnets. We show that a nonvanishing nonlinear thermal Hall conductivity $\kappa_{xyy}$ requires three…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Gunn Kim

In this paper we consider a Lorentz-breaking extension of the theory for a real massive scalar quantum field in the region between two large parallel plates, with our manner to break the Lorentz symmetry is CPT-even, aether-like. For this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-01 M. B. Cruz , E. R. Bezerra de Mello , A. Yu. Petrov

This paper provides an overview of the nonequilibrium fluctuational forces and torques acting on a body either in motion or at rest relative to another body or to the thermal vacuum blackbody radiation. We consider forces and torques beyond…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Kimball A. Milton , Nima Pourtolami , Gerard Kennedy

Negative entropy in connection with the Casimir effect at uniform temperature is a phenomenon rooted in the circumstance that one is describing a nonclosed system, or only part of a closed system. In this paper we show that the phenomenon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Johan S. Høye , Iver Brevik , Kimball A. Milton