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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

Quantum mechanics predicts the occurrence of random electromagnetic field fluctuations, or virtual photons, in vacuum. The exchange of virtual photons between two bodies in relative motion could lead to non-contact quantum vacuum friction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Zhujing Xu , Peng Ju , Kunhong Shen , Yuanbin Jin , Zubin Jacob , Tongcang Li

Fluctuation-induced forces, primarily represented by quantum and critical Casimir effects, play a pivotal role at the nanoscale. This review explores the theoretical and experimental landscapes of these forces, offering a comprehensive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Roberto Passante , Lucia Rizzuto , Peter Schall , Emanuele Marino

Two-point functions, the mean field squared and the vacuum expectation value (VEV) of the energy-momentum tensor are investigated for the electromagnetic field in the geometry of parallel plates on background of $(D+1)$% -dimensional dS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 A. S. Kotanjyan , A. A. Saharian , H. A. Nersisyan

Electromagnetic Casimir stresses are of relevance to many technologies based on mesoscopic devices such as MEMS embedded in dielectric media, Casimir induced friction in nano-machinery, micro-fluidics and molecular electronics. Computation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Shin-itiro Goto , Alison C. Hale , Robin W. Tucker , Timothy J. Walton

We discuss materials which owe their stability to external fields. These include: 1) external electric or magnetic fields, and 2) quantum vacuum fluctuations in these fields induced by suitable boundary conditions (the Casimir effect).…

General Physics · Physics 2014-07-18 John Swain , Allan Widom , Yogendra Srivastava

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

We consider vacuum fluctuations of the quantum electromagnetic field in the presence of an infinite and perfectly conducting plate. We evaluate how the change of vacuum fluctuations due to the plate modifies the Casimir-Polder potential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Spagnolo , R. Passante , L. Rizzuto

The force on a small sphere with a plasma model dielectric function and in the presence of a perfectly reflecting plane is considered. The contribution of both the vacuum modes of the quantized electromagnetic field and of plasmon modes in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. H. Ford

Gedanken experiments are used to explore properties of quantum vacuum energy that are currently challenging to explore experimentally. A constant lateral Casimir force is predicted to exist between two overlapping finite parallel plates at…

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

We evaluate the Hadamard function, the vacuum expectation values (VEVs) of the field squared and the energy-momentum tensor for a massive scalar field with general curvature coupling parameter in the geometry of two parallel plates on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 E. R. Bezerra de Mello , A. A. Saharian , M. R. Setare

We study the Casimir friction phenomenon in a system consisting of two flat, infinite, and parallel graphene sheets, which are coupled to the vacuum electromagnetic (EM) field. Those couplings are implemented, in the description we use, by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-12 M. Belén Farias , César D. Fosco , Fernando C. Lombardo , Francisco D. Mazzitelli

The effects of electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations with the boundary on charged particles is investigated. They may be observed via an electron interference experiment near the conducting plate, where boundary effects of vacuum fluctuations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Tai-Hung Wu , Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Da-Shin Lee

In this paper the quantum vacuum energies induced by massive fluctuations of one real scalar field on a configuration of two partially transparent plates are analysed. The physical properties of the infinitely thin plates are characterized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-17 Jose M. Munoz-Castaneda , J. Mateos Guilarte , A. Moreno Mosquera

We consider a universe with a compact extra dimension and a cosmological constant emerging from a suitable ultraviolet cutoff on the zero point energy of the vacuum. We derive the Casimir force between parallel conducting plates as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Leandros Perivolaropoulos

We evaluate the renormalized vacuum expectation values (VEVs) of electric and magnetic fields squared and the energy-momentum tensor for the electromagnetic field in the geometry of two parallel conducting plates on background of cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-06 E. R. Bezerra de Mello , A. A. Saharian , A. Kh. Grigoryan

The Casimir forces on two parallel plates in conformally flat domain wall background due to conformally coupled massless scalar field satisfying mixed boundary conditions on the plates is investigated. In the general case of mixed boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 M. R. Setare

Whether intentionally introduced to exert control over particles and macroscopic objects, such as for trapping or cooling, or whether arising from the quantum and thermal fluctuations of charges in otherwise neutral bodies, leading to…

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

We consider the Casimir force betweeen two dielectric bodies described by the plasma model and between two infinitely thin plasma sheets. In both cases in addition to the photon modes surface plasmons are present in the spectrum of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Bordag