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We predict a repulsive Casimir-Polder-type dispersion interaction between a single neutron and a metal or dielectric surface. We consider a scenario where a single neutron is subject to an external magnetic field. Due to its intrinsic…

The impedance boundary condition is used to calculate the Casimir force in configurations of two parallel plates and a shpere (spherical lens) above a plate at both zero and nonzero temperature. The impedance approach allows one to find the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. B. Bezerra , G. L. Klimchitskaya , C. Romero

The Casimir force between bodies in vacuum can be understood as arising from their interaction with an infinite number of fluctuating electromagnetic quantum vacuum modes, resulting in a complex dependence on the shape and material of the…

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

We propose a definitive test of whether plates involved in Casimir experiments should be modeled with ballistic or diffusive electrons--a prominent controversy highlighted by a number of conflicting experiments. The unambiguous test we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Andrew A. Allocca , Justin H. Wilson , Victor Galitski

We show that the standard result for the Casimir force between conducting plates at rest in an inertial frame can be computed in light-front quantization. This is not the same as light-front analyses where the plates are at "rest" in an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 J. R. Hiller

Motivated by the long-debated question about the internal stability of the electron, the force densities acting on the charge density of the 1s electron in the H atom are investigated. The problem is mapped onto the canonical formalism for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 F. J. Himpsel

We report measurements of the Casimir force between a gold sphere and a silicon surface with an array of nanoscale, rectangular corrugations using a micromechanical torsional oscillator. At distance between 150 nm and 500 nm, the measured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-15 H. B. Chan , Y. Bao , J. Zou , R. A. Cirelli , F. Klemens , W. M. Mansfield , C. S. Pai

We propose a new method to measure Casimir-Polder force in an optical cavity by means of atomic excitations. We utilize a framework in which Unruh-DeWitt Hamiltonian mimics the full matter-field interaction and find a connection between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Kacper Dębski , Piotr T. Grochowski , Andrzej Dragan

The nonequilibrium Casimir-Polder force between a nanoparticle and a graphene sheet kept at different temperatures is investigated in the framework of Dirac model using the formalism of the polarization tensor. It is shown that the force…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , O. Yu. Tsybin

We evaluate the Casimir-Polder potential between two atoms in the presence of an infinite perfectly conducting plate and at nonzero temperature. In order to calculate the potential, we use a method based on equal-time spatial correlations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Passante , S. Spagnolo

We investigate the forces exerted on embedded inclusions by a fluid medium with long-range correlations, described by an effective scalar field theory. Such forces are the basis for the medium-mediated Casimir-like force. To study these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-06-10 Anne-Florence Bitbol , Jean-Baptiste Fournier

The Casimir forces on two parallel plates in conformally flat de Sitter background due to conformally coupled massless scalar field satisfying mixed boundary conditions on the plates is investigated. In the general case of mixed boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 M. R. Setare

Casimir interactions are not pair-wise additive. This property leads to collective effects that we study for a pair of objects near a conducting wall. We employ a scattering approach to compute the interaction in terms of fluctuating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Rodriguez-Lopez , S. J. Rahi , T. Emig

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 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

We demonstrate that the thermal Casimir-Polder forces on molecules near a conducting surface whose transition wavelengths are comparable to the molecule-surface separation are dependent on the ambient temperature and molecular polarization…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Zhiying Zhu , Hongwei Yu , Bin Wang

We argue that the results for the vacuum forces on a slab and on an atom embedded in a magnetodielectric medium near a mirror, obtained using a recently suggested Lorentz-force approach to the Casimir effect, are equivalent to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. S. Tomas

In this work, we consider a torque caused by the well known quantum mechanical Casimir effect arising from quantized field fluctuations between plates with inhomogeneous, sharply discontinuous, dielectric properties. While the Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-18 William Long , Lucas Schuermann

We investigate the pseudo-Casimir force in a slab of material composed of nematically ordered long polymers. We write the total mesoscopic energy together with the constraint connecting the local density and director fluctuations and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jure Dobnikar , Rudi Podgornik