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We present a new Monte Carlo method to calculate Casimir forces acting on objects in a near-critical fluid, considering the two basic cases of a wall and a sphere embedded in a two-dimensional Ising medium. During the simulation, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-19 Hendrik Hobrecht , Alfred Hucht

Recent work by Jaffe and Scardicchio has expressed the optical approximation to the Casimir effect as a sum over geometric quantities. The first two authors have developed a technique which uses the complex geometry of the space of oriented…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg , Siddhartha Sen

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

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 physical origin of the Casimir force is connected with the existence of zero-point and thermal fluctuations. The Casimir effect is very general and finds applications in various fields of physics. This review is limited to the rapid…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-18 G. L. Klimchitskaya , U. Mohideen , V. M. Mostepanenko

We study the Casimir effect in a system composed of two Weyl semimetals (WSMs) separated by a gap filled with a chiral medium. We calculate the optical response of the material to chiral photons in order to calculate the Casimir force. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 M. Belén Farias , Alexander A. Zyuzin , Thomas L. Schmidt

We calculate the Casimir forces in two configurations, namely, three parallel dielectric slabs and a dielectric slab between two perfectly conducting plates, where the dielectric materials are dispersive and inhomogeneous in the direction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-19 Yang Li , Kimball A. Milton , Xin Guo , Gerard Kennedy , Stephen A. Fulling

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…

The proximity force approximation (PFA) relates the interaction between closely spaced, smoothly curved objects to the force between parallel plates. Precision experiments on Casimir forces necessitate, and spur research on, corrections to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-30 G. Bimonte , T. Emig , R. L. Jaffe , M. Kardar

We consider the Casimir-Polder interaction energy between a metallic nanoparticle and a metallic plate, as well as the Casimir interaction energy between two macroscopic metal plates, in terms of the many-body dispersion interactions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 Pablo Barcellona , Roberto Passante

We review recent developments in the Casimir effect which arises in quantization volumes restricted by material boundaries and in spaces with non-Euclidean topology. The starting point of our discussion is the novel exact solution for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 V. M. Mostepanenko

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

We investigate repulsive Casimir force between slabs containing left-handed materials with controllable electromagnetic properties. The sign of Casimir force is determined by the electric and magnetic properties of the materials, and it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-25 Yaping Yang , Ran Zeng , Shutian Liu , Hong Chen , Shiyao Zhu

The high-temperature aspects of the Casimir force between two neutral conducting walls are studied. The mathematical model of "inert" ideal-conductor walls, considered in the original formulations of the Casimir effect, is based on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Bernard Jancovici , Ladislav Samaj

We report development of a high-sensitivity torsion balance to measure the thermal Casimir force. Special emphasis is placed on experimental investigations of a possible surface electric force originating from surface patch potentials that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 T. Graveson , C. Rackson , W. J. Kim

We consider the Casimir effect of a massive vector field between two semi-infinite dielectric slabs. We first derive the generalization of the Lifshitz formula that gives the Casimir interaction energy of two magnetodielectric slabs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 L. P. Teo

We discuss new approaches to compute numerically the Casimir interaction energy for waveguides of arbitrary section, based on the boundary methods traditionally used to compute eigenvalues of the 2D Helmholtz equation. These methods are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli , P. I. Villar

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

It is well known that, beginning in 2000, the behavior of the thermal correction to the Casimir force between real metals has been hotly debated. As was shown by several research groups, the Lifshitz theory, which provides the theoretical…

In this paper we calculate the Casimir-Polder force density (force per unit area acting on the elements of the surface) on a metallic plate placed in front of a neutral atom. To obtain the force density we use the quantum operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Messina , R. Passante