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In order to compare recent experimental results with theoretical predictions we study the influence of finite conductivity of metals on the Casimir effect. The correction to the Casimir force and energy due to imperfect reflection and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Astrid Lambrecht , Cyriaque Genet , Serge Reynaud

The experimental demonstration of the modification of the Casimir force between a gold coated sphere and a single-crystal Si membrane by light pulses is performed. The specially designed and fabricated Si membrane was irradiated with 514 nm…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Chen , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , U. Mohideen

We study the torque arising between two corrugated metallic plates due to the interaction with electromagnetic vacuum. This Casimir torque can be measured with torsion pendulum techniques for separation distances as large as 1$\mu$m. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-17 Robson B. Rodrigues , Paulo A. Maia Neto , A. Lambrecht , S. Reynaud

A differential measurement scheme is proposed which allows for a clear observation of the giant thermal effect for the Casimir force, that was recently predicted to occur in graphene systems at short separation distances. The difference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-03 G. Bimonte , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

Starting from the Lifshitz formula for the Casimir force between parallel plates we calculate the difference between the forces at two different settings, one in which the temperature is $T_1=350$ K, the other when $T_2=300$ K. As material…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Brevik , J. B. Aarseth , J. S. Hoye , K. A. Milton

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

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

We compare theory and experiment in the Casimir force measurement between gold surfaces performed with the atomic force microscope. Both random and systematic experimental errors are found leading to a total absolute error equal to 8.5 pN…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Chen , G. L. Klimchitskaya , U. Mohideen , V. M. Mostepanenko

The Casimir force between two metallic plates is affected by their roughness state. This effect is usually calculated through the so-called `proximity force approximation' which is only valid for small enough wavevectors in the spectrum of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cyriaque Genet , Astrid Lambrecht , Paulo Maia Neto , Serge Reynaud

We describe a Casimir setup consisting of two aligned sinusoidally corrugated Ni surfaces, one of which is "hidden" by a thin opaque layer of gold with a flat exposed surface. The gold layer acts as a low-pass filter that allows for a clean…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-20 Giuseppe Bimonte

We derive explicit analytic expressions for the lateral force for two different configurations with corrugations, parallel plates and concentric cylinders. By making use of the multiple scattering formalism, we calculate the force for a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-24 Ines Cavero-Pelaez , Kimball A. Milton , Prachi Parashar , K. V. Shajesh

We analyze the lateral critical Casimir force acting between two planar, chemically inhomogeneous walls confining an infinite 2D Ising strip of width $M$. The inhomogeneity of each of the walls has size $N_1$; they are shifted by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-12 Piotr Nowakowski , Marek Napiórkowski

We find the exact Casimir force between a plate and a cylinder, a geometry intermediate between parallel plates, where the force is known exactly, and the plate--sphere, where it is known at large separations. The force has an unexpectedly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Emig , R. L. Jaffe , M. Kardar , A. Scardicchio

We give an exact series expansion of the Casimir force between plane and spherical metallic surfaces in the non trivial situation where the sphere radius $R$, the plane-sphere distance $L$ and the plasma wavelength $\lambda_\P$ have…

The Casimir force between metallic plates made of realistic materials is evaluated for distances in the nanometer range. A spectrum over real frequencies is introduced and shows narrow peaks due to surface resonances (plasmon polaritons or…

We calculate the Casimir force between two parallel plates if the boundary conditions for the photons are modified due to presence of the Chern-Simons term. We show that this effect should be measurable within the present experimental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bordag , D. V. Vassilevich

We study the influence of finite conductivity of metals on the Casimir effect. We put the emphasis on explicit theoretical evaluations which can help comparing experimental results with theory. The reduction of the Casimir force is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Astrid Lambrecht , Serge Reynaud

A recent experiment [J.L. Garrett et al., Phys. Rev. Lett {\bf 120}, 040401 (2018)] measured for the first time the gradient of the Casimir force between two gold spheres at room temperature. The theoretical analysis of the data was carried…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-16 Giuseppe Bimonte

We address three different problematic Casimir experiments in this work. The first is the classical Casimir force measured between two metal half spaces; here in the form of the Casimir pressure measurement between a gold sphere and a gold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-27 Bo E. Sernelius

The thermal Casimir force between two metallic plates is known to depend on the description of material properties. For large separations the dissipative Drude model leads to a force a factor of 2 smaller than the lossless plasma model.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-30 Antoine Canaguier-Durand , Paulo A Maia Neto , Astrid Lambrecht , Serge Reynaud