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We obtain constraints on non-Newtonian gravity following from the improved precision measurement of the Casimir force by means of atomic force microscope. The hypothetical force is calculated in experimental configuration (a sphere above a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bordag , B. Geyer , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

The dielectric sphere has been an important test case for understanding and calculating the vacuum force of a dielectric body onto itself. Here we develop a method for computing this force in homogeneous spheres of arbitrary dielectric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Yael Avni , Ulf Leonhardt

We present a numerical study of the effective potential $V_\mathrm{eff}$ between two hard-sphere colloids dispersed in a solvent of interacting particles, for several values of temperature and solvent density, approaching the solvent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-08 Nicoletta Gnan , Emanuela Zaccarelli , Piero Tartaglia , Francesco Sciortino

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…

A theory is proposed for the component of the Casimir-like force that arises between bodies embedded in a macroscopic quantum damped oscillator. When the oscillator's parameters depend on the distance between the bodies, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Yu. S. Barash

Quantum fluctuations give rise to Casimir forces between two parallel conducting plates, the magnitude of which increases monotonically as the separation decreases. By introducing nanoscale gratings to the surfaces, recent advances have…

The Casimir effect of an ideal Bose gas trapped in a generic power-law potential and confined between two slabs with Dirichlet, Neumann, and periodic boundary conditions is investigated systematically, based on the grand potential of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tongling Lin , Guozhen Su , Qiuping A. Wang , Jincan Chen

The phenomena implied by the existence of quantum vacuum fluctuations, grouped under the title of the Casimir effect, are reviewed, with emphasis on new results discovered in the past four years. The Casimir force between parallel plates is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Kimball A. Milton

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

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

Solutions of semiflexible polymers confined by repulsive planar walls are studied by density functional theory and Molecular Dynamics simulations, to clarify the competition between the chain alignment favored by the wall and the depletion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-25 Sergei A. Egorov , Andrey Milchev , Peter Virnau , Kurt Binder

We analyse the potential of the geometry of a slab in a planar cavity for the purpose of Casimir force experiments. The force and its dependence on temperature, material properties and finite slab thickness are investigated both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Simen A. Ellingsen , Iver Brevik

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

In the current work we present the complete results for the measurement of normal Casimir force between shallow and smooth sinusoidally corrugated gold coated sphere and a plate at various angles between the corrugations using an atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. A. Banishev , J. Wagner , T. Emig , R. Zandi , U. Mohideen

In our paper [Ann. Phys. (NY) 395, 326 (2018)] we calculate the Casimir stress on a sphere immersed in a homogeneous background, assuming dispersionless dielectrics. Our results appear to challenge the conventional picture of Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-08 Ulf Leonhardt

The Casimir force, which results from the confinement of the quantum mechanical zero-point fluctuations of the electromagnetic fields, has received significant attention in recent years for its effect on micro- and nano-scale mechanical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. N. Munday , Federico Capasso

he Casimir force is calculated between plates with thin metallic coating. Thin films are described with spatially dispersive (nonlocal) dielectric functions. For thin films the nonlocal effects are more relevant than for half-spaces.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Esquivel , V. Svetovoy

The Casimir force between parallel lines in a theory describing condensed vortices in a plane is determined. We make use of the relation between a Chern-Simons-Higgs model and its dualized version, which is expressed in terms of a dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-04 J. F. de Medeiros Neto , Rudnei O. Ramos , Carlos Rafael M. Santos

We calculate the Casimir stresses in a thin layer of active fluid with nematic order. By using a stochastic hydrodynamic approach for an active fluid layer of finite thickness $L$, we generalize the Casimir stress for nematic liquid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-08 Abhik Basu , Jean-Francois Joanny , Frank Jülicher , Jacques Prost

We evaluate the fermionic Casimir effect associated with a massive fermion confined within a planar (d+1) dimensional slab-bag, on which MIT bag model boundary conditions of standard type, along a single spatial direction, are imposed. A…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Elizalde , F. C. Santos , A. C. Tort