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 …

Surface electromagnetic waves thermally excited: Radiative heat transfer, coherence properties and Casimir forces revisited in the near field

K Joulain, JP Mulet, F Marquier, R Carminati… - Surface Science …, 2005‏ - Elsevier
We review in this article the influence of surface waves on the thermally excited
electromagnetic field. We study in particular the field emitted at subwavelength distances of …

[كتاب][B] Advances in the Casimir effect

M Bordag, GL Klimchitskaya, U Mohideen… - 2009‏ - books.google.com
The subject of this book is the Casimir effect, a manifestation of zero-point oscillations of the
quantum vacuum resulting in forces acting between closely spaced bodies. For the benefit of …

[كتاب][B] Surface and interfacial forces

HJ Butt, M Kappl - 2018‏ - books.google.com
A general introduction to surface and interfacial forces, perfectly combining theoretical
concepts, experimental techniques and practical applications. In this completely updated …

The Casimir force between real materials: Experiment and theory

GL Klimchitskaya, U Mohideen… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2009‏ - APS
The physical origin of the Casimir force is connected with the existence of zero-point and
thermal fluctuations. The Casimir effect is very general and finds applications in various …

The Casimir effect in microstructured geometries

AW Rodriguez, F Capasso, SG Johnson - Nature photonics, 2011‏ - nature.com
Abstract In 1948, Hendrik Casimir predicted that a generalized version of van der Waals
forces would arise between two metal plates due to quantum fluctuations of the …

The Casimir force: background, experiments, and applications

SK Lamoreaux - Reports on progress in Physics, 2004‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The Casimir force, which is the attraction of two uncharged material bodies due to
modification of the zero-point energy associated with the electromagnetic modes in the …

The Casimir effect: Recent controversies and progress

KA Milton - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 2004‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The phenomena implied by the existence of quantum vacuum fluctuations, grouped under
the title of the Casimir effect, are reviewed, with emphasis on new results discovered in the …

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 …

Scattering theory approach to electrodynamic Casimir forces

SJ Rahi, T Emig, N Graham, RL Jaffe, M Kardar - Physical Review D—Particles …, 2009‏ - APS
We give a comprehensive presentation of methods for calculating the Casimir force to
arbitrary accuracy, for any number of objects, arbitrary shapes, susceptibility functions, and …