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The normal Casimir force between a sinusoidally corrugated gold coated plate and a sphere was measured at various angles between the corrugations using an atomic force microscope. A strong dependence on the orientation angle of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. A. Banishev , J. Wagner , T. Emig , R. Zandi , U. Mohideen

We report on a proposal aimed at measuring the Casimir force in a cylinder-plane configuration. The Casimir force is evaluated including corrections due to finite parallelism, conductivity, and temperature. The range of validity of the…

We calculate the Casimir force between two parallel ideal metal plates when there is an intervening chiral medium present. Making use of methods of quantum statistical mechanics we show how the force can be found in a simple and compact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Johan S. Høye , Iver Brevik

Quantum fluctuations give rise to van der Waals and Casimir forces that dominate the interaction between electrically neutral objects at sub-micron separations. Under the trend of miniaturization, such quantum electrodynamical effects are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-20 J. Zou , Z. Marcet , A. W. Rodriguez , M. T. H. Reid , A. P. McCauley , I. I. Kravchenko , T. Lu , Y. Bao , S. G. Johnson , H. B. Chan

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 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

Casimir forces between conductors at the sub-micron scale cannot be ignored in the design and operation of micro-electromechanical (MEM) devices. However, these forces depend non-trivially on geometry, and existing formulae and…

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 interaction is omnipresent source of forces at small separations between bodies, which is difficult to change by varying external conditions. Here we show that graphene interacting with a metal can have the best known force…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-30 Vitaly Svetovoy , Zakaria Moktadir , Miko Elwenspoek , Hiroshi Mizuta

We have performed comparative measurements of the Casimir force between a metallic plate and a transparent sphere coated with metallic films of different thicknesses. We have observed that, if the thickness of the coating is less than the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mariangela Lisanti , Davide Iannuzzi , Federico Capasso

We derive an exact solution for the Casimir force between two arbitrary periodic dielectric gratings and illustrate our method by applying it to two nanostructured silicon gratings. We also reproduce the Casimir force gradient measured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Astrid Lambrecht , Valery N. Marachevsky

The measurement of the lateral Casimir force between two aligned sinusoidally corrugated Au-coated surfaces has been performed in the nonadditive regime. The use of deeper corrugations also allowed to demonstrate an asymmetry in the phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 H. -C. Chiu , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. N. Marachevsky , V. M. Mostepanenko , U. Mohideen

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

We demonstrate quantum levitation controlled by Casimir forces acting between a polystyrene surface and a Teflon-coated metallic substrate immersed in a mixture of Toluene and magnetite particles. This system experiences…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Long Ma , Larissa Inácio , Dai-Nam Le , Lilia M. Woods , Mathias Boström

We have used an atomic force microscope to make precision measurements of the Casimir force between a metallized sphere of diameter 196 microns and flat plate. The force was measured for plate-sphere separations from 0.1 to 0.9 microns. The…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-25 U. Mohideen , Anushree Roy

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…

We argue that the exactly computable, angle dependent, Casimir force between parallel plates with different directions of conductivity can be measured.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-31 O. Kenneth , S. Nussinov

We analyse the result of precise measurement of the Casimir force between bodies covered with gold. The values of the parameters used to extrapolate the gold dielectric function to low frequencies are very important and discussed in detail.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 V. B. Svetovoy , M. V. Lokhanin

Stability of graphene cantilever under Casimir attraction to an underlying conductor is investigated. The dependence of the instability threshold on temperature and flexural rigidity is obtained. Analytical work is supplemented by numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Amel Derras-Chouk , Eugene Chudnovsky , Dmitry Garanin , Reem Jaafar

Several experimental demonstrations of the Casimir force between two closely spaced bodies have been realized over the past two decades. Extending the theory to incorporate the behavior of the force between two superconducting films close…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Richard A. Norte , Moritz Forsch , Andreas Wallucks , Igor Marinkovic , Simon Gröblacher