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The Casimir force between two parallel plates separated by anisotropic media is investigated. We theoretically calculate the Casimir force between two parallel plates when the interspace between the plates is filled with anisotropic media.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-29 Gang Deng , Bao-Hua Tan , Ling Pei , Ni Hu , Jin-Rong Zhu

According to the experimentally observed theory of the static Casimir effect, two metal, uncharged, conductive and flat plates attract each other in vacuum >.Herein, equations of motion of the plates which are influenced by Casimir…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mohammad Mansouryar

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

In 1948 H.B.G.Casimir predicted that an attractive force between two perfectly conducting neutral plates exists due to changes in the electromagnetic vacuum energy caused by the influence of the plates. In 1956 E.M. Lifshitz derived an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karen Windmeier Wetz

After a review of the standard calculation of the Casimir force between two metallic plates at zero and non-zero temperatures, we present the study of microscopic models to determine the large-distance asymptotic force in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 Ph. A. Martin , P. R. Buenzli

The Casimir effect is a force arising in the macroscopic world as a result of radiation pressure of vacuum fluctuations. It thus plays a key role in the emerging domain of nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS). This role is reviewed in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cyriaque Genet , Astrid Lambrecht , Serge Reynaud

The Casimir effect, reflecting quantum vacuum fluctuations in the electromagnetic field in a region with material boundaries, has been studied both theoretically and experimentally since 1948. The forces between dielectric and metallic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Iver Brevik , Simen A. Ellingsen , Kimball A. Milton

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 review modern achievements and problems in physics of the van der Waals and Casimir forces which arise due to zero-point and thermal fluctuations of the electromagnetic field between closely spaced material surfaces. This subject…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

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

The attractive force between metallic surfaces, predicted by Casimir in 1948, seems to indicate the physical existence and measurability of the quantized electromagnetic field's zero-point energy. It is shown in this article, that the…

General Physics · Physics 2013-08-22 Gerold Gründler

The Casimir effect in graphene systems is reviewed with emphasis made on the large thermal correction to the Casimir force predicted at short separations between the test bodies. The computational results for the Casimir pressure and for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 G. L. Klimchitskaya , U. Mohideen , V. M. Mostepanenko

One of the most important and still unresolved problems in the field of dispersion forces, is that of determining the influence of temperature on the Casimir force between two metallic plates. While alternative theoretical approaches lead…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-10 Giuseppe Bimonte

A powerful procedure is presented for calculating the Casimir attraction between plane parallel multilayers made up of homogeneous regions with arbitrary magnetic and dielectric properties by use of the Minkowski energy-momentum tensor. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Simen A. Ellingsen

Quantum theory predicts the existence of the Casimir force between macroscopic bodies, due to the zero-point energy of electromagnetic field modes around them. This quantum fluctuation-induced force has been experimentally observed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-19 A. O. Sushkov , W. J. Kim , D. A. R. Dalvit , S. K. Lamoreaux

The applicability of the Lifshitz formula is discussed to the case of two thick parallel plates made of real metal. The usual description of the zero-point vacuum oscillations on the background of the frequency-dependent dielectric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Mostepanenko , A. O. Caride , G. L. Klimchitskaya , S. I. Zanette

The zero-point quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field in vacuum are known to give rise to a long-range attractive force between metal plates (Casimir effect). For ferromagnetic layers separated by vacuum, it is shown that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Bruno

The Casimir and van der Waals forces acting between two metallic plates or a sphere (lens) above a plate are calculated accounting for the finite conductivity of the metals. The simple formalism of surface modes is briefly presented which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. L. Klimchitskaya , U. Mohideen , V. M. Mostepanenko

A novel approach for calculating Casimir forces between periodically deformed objects is developed. This approach allows, for the first time, a rigorous non-perturbative treatment of the Casimir effect for disconnected objects beyond…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-17 Thorsten Emig

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