Materials perspective on Casimir and van der Waals interactions

LM Woods, DAR Dalvit, A Tkatchenko… - Reviews of Modern …, 2016 - APS
Interactions induced by electromagnetic fluctuations, such as van der Waals and Casimir
forces, are of universal nature present at any length scale between any types of systems …

Casimir puzzle and Casimir conundrum: Discovery and search for resolution

VM Mostepanenko - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper provides a review of the complicated problems in Lifshitz theory describing the
Casimir force between real material plates composed of metals and dielectrics, including …

Finite-temperature Casimir effect for graphene

IV Fialkovsky, VN Marachevsky, DV Vassilevich - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
We adopt the Dirac model for quasiparticles in graphene and calculate the finite-
temperature Casimir interaction between a suspended graphene layer and a parallel …

Nonequilibrium fluctuational quantum electrodynamics: Heat radiation, heat transfer, and force

G Bimonte, T Emig, M Kardar… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Quantum-thermal fluctuations of electromagnetic waves are the cornerstone of quantum
statistics and inherent to phenomena such as thermal radiation and van der Waals forces …

Short-range fundamental forces

I Antoniadis, S Baessler, M Büchner, VV Fedorov… - Comptes Rendus …, 2011 - Elsevier
We consider theoretical motivations to search for extra short-range fundamental forces as
well as experiments constraining their parameters. The forces could be of two types: 1) spin …

Retarded interactions in graphene systems

BE Sernelius - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2012 - APS
We first demonstrate how two-dimensional sheets are incorporated in the formalism for
planar structures. Then we derive the interaction in the geometry of two freestanding …

Material dependence of Casimir forces: Gradient expansion beyond proximity

G Bimonte, T Emig, M Kardar - Applied Physics Letters, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
A widely used method for estimating Casimir interactions [HBG Casimir, Proc. K. Ned. Akad.
Wet. 51, 793 (1948)] between gently curved material surfaces at short distances is the …

Fluctuation-induced forces between atoms and surfaces: The casimir–polder interaction

F Intravaia, C Henkel, M Antezza - Casimir Physics, 2011 - Springer
Electromagnetic fluctuation-induced forces between atoms and surfaces are generally
known as Casimir–Polder interactions. The exact knowledge of these forces is rapidly …

Low-temperature behavior of the Casimir free energy and entropy of metallic films

GL Klimchitskaya, VM Mostepanenko - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We derive an analytic behavior of the Casimir free energy, entropy, and pressure of metallic
films in a vacuum at low temperature. It is shown that this behavior differs significantly …

Impact of surface imperfections on the Casimir force for lenses of centimeter-size curvature radii

VB Bezerra, GL Klimchitskaya, U Mohideen… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
The impact of imperfections, which are always present on surfaces of lenses with centimeter-
size curvature radii, on the Casimir force in the lens-plate geometry is investigated. It is …