Classical and fluctuation‐induced electromagnetic interactions in micron‐scale systems: designer bonding, antibonding, and Casimir forces

AW Rodriguez, PC Hui, DP Woolf… - Annalen der …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Whether intentionally introduced to exert control over particles and macroscopic objects,
such as for trapping or cooling, or whether arising from the quantum and thermal fluctuations …

Fifteen years of cold matter on the atom chip: promise, realizations, and prospects

M Keil, O Amit, S Zhou, D Groswasser… - Journal of modern …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Here we review the field of atom chips in the context of Bose–Einstein Condensates (BEC)
as well as cold matter in general. Twenty years after the first realization of the BEC and 15 …

Repulsive casimir and casimir–polder forces

KA Milton, EK Abalo, P Parashar… - Journal of Physics A …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Casimir and Casimir–Polder repulsions have been known for more than 50 years.
The general'Lifshitz'configuration of parallel semi-infinite dielectric slabs permits repulsion if …

Probing atom-surface interactions by diffraction of Bose-Einstein condensates

H Bender, C Stehle, C Zimmermann, S Slama, J Fiedler… - Physical Review X, 2014 - APS
In this article, we analyze the Casimir-Polder interaction of atoms with a solid grating and the
repulsive interaction between the atoms and the grating in the presence of an external laser …

Fundamental limits to attractive and repulsive Casimir-Polder forces

PS Venkataram, S Molesky, P Chao, AW Rodriguez - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
We derive upper and lower bounds on the Casimir-Polder force between an anisotropic
dipolar body and a macroscopic body, separated by vacuum, via algebraic properties of …

Fluctuating surface currents: An algorithm for efficient prediction of Casimir interactions among arbitrary materials in arbitrary geometries

MTH Reid, J White, SG Johnson - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and …, 2013 - APS
This paper presents a method for the efficient numerical computation of Casimir interactions
between objects of arbitrary geometries, composed of materials with arbitrary frequency …

Axial casimir force

QD Jiang, F Wilczek - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Quantum fluctuations in vacuum can exert a dissipative force on moving objects, which is
known as Casimir friction. Especially, a rotating particle in the vacuum will eventually slow …

Giant vacuum forces via transmission lines

E Shahmoon, I Mazets… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Quantum electromagnetic fluctuations induce forces between neutral particles, known as the
van der Waals and Casimir interactions. These fundamental forces, mediated by virtual …

How do London dispersion interactions impact the photochemical processes of molecular switches?

A Fabrizio, C Corminboeuf - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In the last two decades, linear-response time-dependent density functional theory (LR-
TDDFT) has become one of the most widely used approaches for the computation of the …

Geometrical dependence in Casimir-Polder repulsion

JJ Marchetta, P Parashar, KV Shajesh - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Repulsion, induced from quantum vacuum fluctuations, for an anisotropically polarizable
atom on the symmetry axis of an anisotropically polarizable annular disk is studied. There …