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We address three different problematic Casimir experiments in this work. The first is the classical Casimir force measured between two metal half spaces; here in the form of the Casimir pressure measurement between a gold sphere and a gold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-27 Bo E. Sernelius

When massless excitations are limited or modified by the presence of material bodies one observes a force acting between them generally called Casimir force. Such excitations are present in any fluid system close to its true bulk critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-05 Daniel M Dantchev , Vassil M Vassilev , Peter A Djondjorov

Exploiting methods of Quantum Field Theory we compute the bulk polarization tensor and bulk dielectric functions for Dirac materials in the presence of a mass gap, chemical potential, and finite temperature. Using these results (and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 M. Bordag , I. Fialkovsky , N. Khusnutdinov , D. Vassilevich

The Casimir energy, free energy and Casimir force are evaluated, at arbitrary finite temperature, for a dilute dielectric ball with uniform velocity of light inside the ball and in the surrounding medium. In particular, we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Klich , J. Feinberg , A. Mann , M. Revzen

We discuss recent experimental and theoretical results on the Casimir force between real material bodies made of different materials. Special attention is paid to calculations of the normal Casimir force acting perpendicular to the surface…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-10 G. L. Klimchitskaya

In this paper we theoretically demonstrate the tunability of the Casimir force both in sign and magnitude between parallel plates coated with dispersive materials. We show that this force, existing between uncharged plates, can be tuned by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Miguel Camacho , Tao Gong , Benjamin Spreng , Iñigo Liberal , Nader Engheta , Jeremy N. Munday

We reconsider the thermal scalar Casimir effect for $p$-dimensional rectangular cavity inside $D+1$-dimensional Minkowski space-time. We derive rigorously the regularization of the temperature-dependent part of the free energy by making use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Rui-hui Lin , Xiang-hua Zhai

Within the framework of the Drude dispersive model, we predict an unusual non-monotonous temperature dependence of the Casimir force for thin metal films. For certain conditions, this force decreases with temperature due to the decrease of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. A. Yampol'skii , Sergey Savel'ev , Z. A. Mayselis , S. S. Apostolov , Franco Nori

Quantum electrodynamic fluctuations cause an attractive force between metallic surfaces. At separations where the finite speed of light affects the interaction, it is called the Casimir force. Thermal motion determines the fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 Joseph L. Garrett , David A. T. Somers , Kyle Sendgikoski , Jeremy N. Munday

We study the Casimir-Lifshitz force (CLF) between a gold plate and a graphene-covered dielectric grating. Using a scattering matrix (S-matrix) approach derived from the Fourier Modal Method (FMM), we find a significant enhancement in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Youssef Jeyar , Minggang Luo , Brahim Guizal , H. B. Chan , Mauro Antezza

The survey summarizes briefly the results obtained recently in the Casimir effect studies considering the following subjects: i) account of the material characteristics of the media and their influence on the vacuum energy (for example,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Nesterenko

When masless excitations are limited or modified by the presence of material bodies one observes a force atcing between them generally called Casimir force. Such excitations are present in any fluid system close to its true bulk critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-27 Daniel M. Dantchev , Vassil M. Vassilev , Peter A. Djondjorov

In this work we analyze the Casimir energy and force for a {\it thick} piston configuration. This study is performed by utilizing the spectral zeta function regularization method. The results we obtain for the Casimir energy and force…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-26 Guglielmo Fucci

The proceeding comment raises a few points concerning our paper Dantchev \textit{et al.}, Phys. Rev. E. {\bf 89}, 042116 (2014). In this reply we stress that while Refs. Diehl \textit{et al.} EPL {\bf 100}, 10004 (2012) and Phys. Rev. E.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-27 Daniel Dantchev , Jonathan Bergknoff , Joseph Rudnick

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

In odd-dimensional spaces, gauge invariance permits a Chern-Simons mass term for the gauge fields in addition to the usual Maxwell-Yang-Mills kinetic energy term. We study the Casimir effect in such a (2+1)-dimensional Abelian theory. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Kimball A. Milton

We study the thermodynamic Casimir force between a spherical object and a plate. We consider the bulk universality class of the three-dimensional Ising model, which is relevant for experiments on binary mixtures. To this end, we simulate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-27 Martin Hasenbusch

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

We show that graphene-dielectric multilayers give rise to an unusual tunability of the Casimir-Lifshitz forces, and allow to easily realize completely different regimes within the same structure. Concerning thermal effects,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-27 Chahine Abbas , Brahim Guizal , Mauro Antezza

The experimental investigation of the Casimir force between a large metallized sphere and semiconductor plate is performed using an atomic force microscope. Improved calibration and measurement procedures permitted reduction in the role of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Chen , U. Mohideen , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko