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 …

Casimir and Casimir-Polder forces in graphene systems: Quantum field theoretical description and thermodynamics

GL Klimchitskaya, VM Mostepanenko - Universe, 2020 - mdpi.com
We review recent results on the low-temperature behaviors of the Casimir-Polder and
Casimir free energy an entropy for a polarizable atom interacting with a graphene sheet and …

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 …

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 …

Dynamical polarizability of graphene with spatial dispersion

T Zhu, M Antezza, JS Wang - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We perform a detailed analysis of electronic polarizability of graphene with different
theoretical approaches. From Kubo's linear response formalism, we give a general …

Convergence of the polarization tensor in spacetime of three dimensions

M Bordag, GL Klimchitskaya, VM Mostepanenko - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
In this paper, we consider the convergence properties of the polarization tensor of graphene
obtained in the framework of thermal quantum field theory in three-dimensional spacetime …

Quantum field theoretical framework for the electromagnetic response of graphene and dispersion relations with implications to the Casimir effect

GL Klimchitskaya, VM Mostepanenko - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We consider the spatially nonlocal response functions of graphene obtained on the basis of
first principles of quantum field theory using the polarization tensor in the areas of both the …

An alternative response to the off-shell quantum fluctuations: A step forward in resolution of the Casimir puzzle

GL Klimchitskaya, VM Mostepanenko - The European Physical Journal C, 2020 - Springer
The spatially nonlocal response functions are proposed which nearly coincide with the
commonly used local response for electromagnetic fields and fluctuations on the mass shell …

Theory-experiment comparison for the Casimir force between metallic test bodies: A spatially nonlocal dielectric response

GL Klimchitskaya, VM Mostepanenko - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
It is known that the Lifshitz theory of the Casimir force comes into conflict with measurement
data if the response of conduction electrons in metals to electromagnetic fluctuations is …

Impact of Mass-Gap on the Dispersion Interaction of Nanoparticles with Graphene out of Thermal Equilibrium

GL Klimchitskaya, CC Korikov, VM Mostepanenko… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
We consider the nonequilibrium dispersion force acting on nanoparticles on the source side
of a gapped graphene sheet. Nanoparticles are kept at the environmental temperature …