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 …

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 …

Casimir effect invalidates the Drude model for transverse electric evanescent waves

GL Klimchitskaya, VM Mostepanenko - Physics, 2023 - mdpi.com
We consider the Casimir pressure between two metallic plates and calculate the four
contributions to it determined by the propagating and evanescent waves and by the …

Experimentum crucis for Electromagnetic Response of Metals to Evanescent Waves and the Casimir Puzzle

GL Klimchitskaya, VM Mostepanenko, VB Svetovoy - Universe, 2022 - mdpi.com
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 …

Casimir entropy and nonlocal response functions to the off-shell quantum fluctuations

GL Klimchitskaya, VM Mostepanenko - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
The nonlocal response functions to quantum fluctuations are used to find asymptotic
expressions for the Casimir free energy and entropy at an arbitrarily low temperature in the …

Nernst heat theorem for an atom interacting with graphene: Dirac model with nonzero energy gap and chemical potential

GL Klimchitskaya, VM Mostepanenko - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We derive the low-temperature behavior of the Casimir-Polder free energy for a polarizable
atom interacting with graphene sheet which possesses the nonzero energy gap Δ and …

Geometrically confined thermal field theory: Finite size corrections and phase transitions

S Mogliacci, I Kolbé, WA Horowitz - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Motivated by evidence for quark-gluon plasma signatures in small systems, we study a
simple model of a massless, noninteracting scalar field confined with Dirichlet boundary …

[HTML][HTML] Advances and Prospects in Casimir Physics

GL Klimchitskaya, VM Mostepanenko - Physics, 2024 - mdpi.com
In the present introductory to the Special Issue “75 Years of the Casimir Effect: Advances
and Prospects”, we summarize the state of the art in this field of physics, briefly describe the …

Puzzling low-temperature behavior of the van der waals friction force between metallic plates in relative motion

G Dedkov - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper presents the results of calculating the van der Waals friction force (dissipative
fluctuation-electromagnetic force) between metallic (Au) plates in relative motion at …

Casimir self-entropy of nanoparticles with classical polarizabilities: Electromagnetic field fluctuations

Y Li, KA Milton, P Parashar, G Kennedy, N Pourtolami… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Not only are Casimir interaction entropies not guaranteed to be positive, but also, more
strikingly, Casimir self-entropies of bodies can be negative. Here, we attempt to interpret the …