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 …

Recent progress in engineering the Casimir effect–applications to nanophotonics, nanomechanics, and chemistry

T Gong, MR Corrado, AR Mahbub, C Shelden… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Quantum optics combines classical electrodynamics with quantum mechanics to describe
how light interacts with material on the nanoscale, and many of the tricks and techniques …

Measurement of the Casimir Force between 0.2 and 8 μm: Experimental Procedures and Comparison with Theory

G Bimonte, B Spreng, PA Maia Neto, GL Ingold… - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
We present results on the determination of the differential Casimir force between an Au-
coated sapphire sphere and the top and bottom of Au-coated deep silicon trenches …

Experimental and theoretical investigation of the thermal effect in the Casimir interaction from graphene

M Liu, Y Zhang, GL Klimchitskaya, VM Mostepanenko… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We present the results of an experiment on measuring the gradient of the Casimir force
between an Au-coated hollow glass microsphere and graphene-coated fused silica plate by …

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 …

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 …

Strong geometry dependence of the Casimir force between interpenetrated rectangular gratings

M Wang, L Tang, CY Ng, R Messina, B Guizal… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Quantum fluctuations give rise to Casimir forces between two parallel conducting plates, the
magnitude of which increases monotonically as the separation decreases. By introducing …

Demonstration of an unusual thermal effect in the casimir force from graphene

M Liu, Y Zhang, GL Klimchitskaya, VM Mostepanenko… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We report precision measurements of the gradient of the Casimir force between an Au-
coated sphere and graphene sheet deposited on a silica plate. The measurement data are …

Something can come of nothing: Surface approaches to quantum fluctuations and the Casimir force

G Bimonte, T Emig, N Graham… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The Casimir force provides a striking example of the effects of quantum fluctuations in a
mesoscopic system. Because it arises from the objects' electromagnetic response, the …

Radiative heat transfer and nonequilibrium Casimir-Lifshitz force in many-body systems with planar geometry

I Latella, P Ben-Abdallah, SA Biehs, M Antezza… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
A general theory of photon-mediated energy and momentum transfer in N-body planar
systems out of thermal equilibrium is introduced. It is based on the combination of the …