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The thermal Casimir force between two metallic plates is known to depend on the description of material properties. For large separations the dissipative Drude model leads to a force a factor of 2 smaller than the lossless plasma model.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-30 Antoine Canaguier-Durand , Paulo A Maia Neto , Astrid Lambrecht , Serge Reynaud

The Van Kampen method is used to calculate the Casimir force for two dielectric layers. Several terms of Lorentz oscillators are used in the permittivity model. A conductive dielectric (metal) with the Drude model is considered as a special…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Michael Davidovich

A new systematic correction for Casimir force measurements is proposed and applied to the results of an experiment that was performed more than a decade ago. This correction brings the experimental results into good agreement with the Drude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-27 S. K. Lamoreaux

We consider a dielectric medium with an ultraviolet behavior as it follows from the Drude model. Compared with dilute models, this has the advantage that, for large frequencies, two different media behave the same way. As a result one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Falomir , K. Kirsten , K. Rébora

In order to explore repulsive Casimir/van der Waals forces between solid materials with liquid as the intervening medium, we analyze dielectric data for a wide range of materials as for example PTFE, polystyrene, silica and more than twenty…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 P. J. van Zwol , G. Palasantzas

Isotopic dependence of the Casimir force is key to probing new physics and pushing novel technologies at the micro and nanoscale, but is largely unexplored. In 2002, an isotope effect of 10^(-4) was estimated for metals -- orders of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Lanyi Xie , Fuwei Yang , Bai Song

In this article we present calculations of van der Waals/Casimir forces, described by Lifshitz theory, for the solid-liquid-solid system using measured dielectric functions of all involved materials for the wavelength range from millimeters…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 P. J. van Zwol , G. Palasantzas , J. Th. M. De Hosson

The measurement of the Casimir force between a large gold coated sphere and single crystal silicon plate is performed with an atomic force microscope. A rigorous statistical comparison of data with theory is done, without use of the concept…

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

The Lifshitz theory provides a method to calculate the Casimir force between two flat plates if the frequency dependent dielectric function of the plates is known. In reality any plate is rough and its optical properties are known only to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-27 P. J. van Zwol , V. B. Svetovoy , G. Palasantzas

The Casimir force between two short-range charge sources, embedded in a background of one dimensional massive Dirac fermions, is explored by means of the original $\ln\text{[Wronskian]}$ contour integration techniques. For identical sources…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-19 Yu. Voronina , I. Komissarov , K. Sveshnikov

It is well known that the Casimir force calculated at large separations using the Lifshitz theory differs by a factor of 2 for metals described by the Drude or plasma models. We argue that this difference is entirely determined by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , V. B. Svetovoy

We calculate the Casimir force and its gradient between a spherical and a planar gold surface. Significant numerical improvements allow us to extend the range of accessible parameters into the experimental regime. We compare our numerically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Michael Hartmann , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Paulo A. Maia Neto

We comment on progress in measurements of the Casimir force and discuss what is the actual reliability of different experiments. In this connection a more rigorous approach to the usage of such concepts as accuracy, precision, and measure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

We describe a numerical time-domain approach for high-accuracy calculations of Casimir-Polder forces near micro-structured materials. The use of a time-domain formulation enables the investigation of a broad range of materials described by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Philip Trøst Kristensen , Bettina Beverungen , Francesco Intravaia , Kurt Busch

The Casimir force follows from quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field and yields a nonlinear attractive force between closely spaced conductive objects. Measuring the Casimir force in superconducting materials on either side of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Matthijs H. J. de Jong , Evren Korkmazgil , Louise Banniard , Mika A. Sillanpää , Laure Mercier de Lépinay

We discuss experimental schemes to measure the Casimir force and short range forces from hypothetical modified gravity with unprecedented sensitivity using highly sensitive prototype gravitational wave detectors as displacement sensors. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 G. Rajalakshmi , C. S. Unnikrishnan

The experimental demonstration of the modification of the Casimir force between a gold coated sphere and a single-crystal Si membrane by light pulses is performed. The specially designed and fabricated Si membrane was irradiated with 514 nm…

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

We calculate the Casimir force on an isolated dielectric sphere in an ensemble of $N$ spheres due to multiple mutual interactions of the collection of spheres. In particular we consider dielectric spheres immersed in some other background…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-07 James Babington , Stefan Scheel

We report new constraints on extra-dimensional models and other physics beyond the Standard Model based on measurements of the Casimir force between two dissimilar metals for separations in the range 0.2--1.2 $\mu$m. The Casimir force…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 R. S. Decca , E. Fischbach , G. L. Klimchitskaya , D. E. Krause , D. L. Lopez , V. M. Mostepanenko

Up to now there has been no reliable method to calculate the Casimir force when surface roughness becomes comparable with the separation between bodies. Statistical analysis of rough Au films demonstrates rare peaks with heights…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-11 Wijnand Broer , George Palasantzas , Jasper Knoester , Vitaly B. Svetovoy