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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

We consider systems with slab geometry of finite thickness L that undergo second order phase transitions in the bulk limit and belong to the universality class of O(n)-symmetric systems with short-range interactions. In these systems the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-04 Denis Comtesse , Alfred Hucht , Daniel Grüneberg

We present a modal approach to calculate finite temperature Casimir interactions between two periodically modulated surfaces. The scattering formula is used and the reflection matrices of the patterned surfaces are calculated decomposing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-10 P. S. Davids , F. Intravaia , F. S. S. Rosa , D. A. R. Dalvit

We present both analytical and numerical results for the behaviour of the Casimir force in a Ginzburg-Landau type model of a film of a simple fluid or binary liquid mixture in which the confining surfaces are strongly adsorbing but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-06 Daniel Dantchev , Vassil Vassilev , Peter Djondjorov

The dependence of the Casimir force on material properties is important for both future applications and to gain further insight on its fundamental aspects. Here we derive a general theory of the Casimir force for low-conducting compounds,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. G. Galkina , B. A. Ivanov , Sergey E. Savel'ev , V. A. Yampol'skii , Franco Nori

The difference of the thermal Casimir forces at different temperatures between real metals is shown to increase with a decrease of the separation distance. This opens new opportunities for the demonstration of the thermal dependence of the…

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

We present first worldline analytical and numerical results for the nontrivial interplay between geometry and temperature dependencies of the Casimir effect. We show that the temperature dependence of the Casimir force can be significantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-28 Klaus Klingmuller , Holger Gies

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

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

Recently V. A. Yampol'skii, S. Savel'ev, Z. A. Mayselis, S. S. Apostolov, and F. Nori [Phys. Rev. Lett., v.101, 096803 (2008),arXiv:0712.1395] claimed that the Casimir force between a thin metal film described by the Drude model and an…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-10-20 B. Geyer , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

We measure the Casimir force between a gold sphere and a silicon plate with nanoscale, rectangular corrugations with depth comparable to the separation between the surfaces. In the proximity force approximation (PFA), both the top and…

Isoelectronic differential force measurements provide a unique opportunity to probe controversial features of the thermal Casimir effect, that are still much debated in the current literature. Isolectronic setups offer two major advantages…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-01 Giuseppe Bimonte

We consider the Casimir force acting on a $d$-dimensional rectangular piston due to massless scalar field with periodic, Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions and electromagnetic field with perfect electric conductor and perfect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 S. C. Lim , L. P. Teo

We provide further evidence for the nontrivial interplay between geometry and temperature in the Casimir effect. We investigate the temperature dependence of the Casimir force between an inclined semi-infinite plate above an infinite plate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Alexej Weber , Holger Gies

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

We consider the vacuum-field pressure on boundaries of a metal slab in the middle of a cavity with perfectly reflecting mirrors adopting the plasma model for the metal and paying special attention to the surface plasmon polariton…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marin-Slobodan Tomas , Zdravko Lenac

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 review and obtain some new results on the temperature dependence of spatially nonlocal response functions of graphene and their applications to calculation of both the equilibrium and nonequilibrium Casimir and Casimir-Polder forces.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

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

In this paper, the finite temperature Casimir force acting on a two-dimensional Casimir piston due to electromagnetic field is computed. It was found that if mixed boundary conditions are assumed on the piston and its opposite wall, then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-19 L. P. Teo