The fastest-spinning man-made object is a tiny dumbbell rotating at 5 GHz. The smallest
wind-up motor is constructed from a DNA molecule. Picoliter volumes of fluids are remotely …

When two or more objects move relative to one another in vacuum, they experience a drag
force, which, at zero temperature, usually goes under the name of quantum friction. This …

Casimir torque, a rotational motion driven by zero-point energy minimization, is a problem
that attracts notable research interest. Recently, it has been realized using liquid crystal …

The fluctuations of the electromagnetic field are at the origin of the near-field radiative heat
transfer between nanostructures, as well as the Casimir forces and torques that they exert on …

The Casimir force acts on nearby surfaces due to zero-point fluctuations of the quantum
electromagnetic field. In the nonretarded limit, the interaction is also known as the van der …

Two objects in relative motion without physical contact suffer a friction force, resulting from
vacuum fluctuation. It is widely accepted that friction acts in the opposite direction of the …

The near-field electromagnetic interaction between nanoscale objects produces enhanced
radiative heat transfer that can greatly surpass the limits established by far-field blackbody …

We investigate the steady-state nonconservative open-system dynamics of an atom in a
generic complex structured electromagnetic environment at finite temperature T. In such …

This paper presents the results of calculating the Casimir–Lifshitz friction force and the
heating rate of a small metal particle moving above a metal surface (thick plate) in the case …

We show that the axial Casimir force (ACF) acting on a rotating nanoparticle can also
appear in the proximity of a hyperbolic metasurface made of graphene ribbons since it was …