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We consider the out-of-thermal-equilibrium Casimir-Polder interaction between atoms of He$^*$, Na, Cs, and Rb and a cavity wall made of sapphire coated with a vanadium dioxide film which undergoes the dielectric-to-metal phase transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

We provide a review of both new experimental and theoretical developments in the Casimir effect. The Casimir effect results from the alteration by the boundaries of the zero-point electromagnetic energy. Unique to the Casimir force is its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bordag , U. Mohideen , V. M. Mostepanenko

We investigate a stable Casimir force configuration consisting of an object contained inside a spherical or spheroidal cavity filled with a dielectric medium. The spring constant for displacements from the center of the cavity and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-20 Sahand Jamal Rahi , Saad Zaheer

We compare theoretical expectations for the Casimir force with the results of precise measurements. The force is calculated at finite temperature for multilayered covering of the bodies using the Lifshitz theory. We argue that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. B. Svetovoy , M. V. Lokhanin

We discuss the Casimir effect for massless scalar fields subject to the Dirichlet boundary conditions on the parallel plates at finite temperature in the presence of one fractal extra compactified dimension. We obtain the Casimir energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Hongbo Cheng

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

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 discuss the Casimir effect between two identical, parallel slabs, emphasizing the role of dissipation and temperature. Starting from quite general assumptions, we analyze the behavior of the Casimir entropy in the limit T->0 and link it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Intravaia , C. Henkel

Difference between bulk material and deposited film is shown to have an appreciable influence on the Casimir force. Analysis of the optical data on gold films unambiguously demonstrates the sample dependence: the dielectric functions of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. B. Svetovoy

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 calculate the Casimir-Lifshitz pressure in a system consisting of two different 1D dielectric lamellar gratings having two different temperatures and immersed in an environment having a third temperature. The calculation of the pressure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Antonio Noto , Riccardo Messina , Brahim Guizal , Mauro Antezza

The Casimir effect is considered for a wedge with opening angle $\alpha $, with perfectly conducting walls, when the interior region is filled with an isotropic and nondispersive medium with permittivity $\epsilon $ and permeability $\mu $.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-14 I. Brevik , K. Pettersen

We analyze the possibility to measure small thermal effects in the Casimir force between metal test bodies in configurations of a sphere above a plate and two parallel plates. For sphere-plate geometry used in many experiments we…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-12-09 B. Geyer , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

A recent experiment [J. L. Garrett, D. A. T. Somers, and J. N. Munday, Phys. Rev. Lett {\bf 120}, 040401 (2018)] measured for the first time the gradient of the Casimir force between two gold spheres in vacuum at room temperature, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-12 Giuseppe Bimonte

We have analyzed available optical data for Au in the mid-infrared range which is important for a precise prediction of the Casimir force. Significant variation of the data demonstrates genuine sample dependence of the dielectric function.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Pirozhenko , A. Lambrecht , V. B. Svetovoy

We consider the finite temperature Casimir force acting on two parallel plates in a closed cylinder with the same cross section of arbitrary shape in the presence of extra dimensions. Dirichlet boundary conditions are imposed on one plate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 L. P. Teo , K. Kirsten

We propose a theory of the thermal Casimir interaction for multilayered test bodies coated with a graphene sheet. The reflection coefficients on such structures are expressed in terms of the components of the polarization tensor and the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-03-19 G. L. Klimchitskaya , U. Mohideen , V. M. Mostepanenko

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

Recent experiments have measured the critical Casimir force acting on a colloid immersed in a binary liquid mixture near its continuous demixing phase transition and exposed to a chemically structured substrate. Motivated by these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-27 Francesco Parisen Toldin , Matthias Tröndle , S. Dietrich

A widely used method for estimating Casimir interactions [H. B. G. Casimir, Proc. K. Ned. Akad. Wet. 51, 793 (1948)] between gently curved material surfaces at short distances is the proximity force approximation (PFA). While this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 G. Bimonte , T. Emig , M. Kardar